NCCR Guide 2013 - Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)

Guide2013 

National Centres of Competence in Research

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(The statistical data is based on the latest 

progress reports of the NCCRs.)

Content 

National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCRs) 

Goals and Implementation 5 

The NCCRs at a glance 6 

 

Life Sciences 

• NCCR Molecular Oncology – From Basic Research to Therapeutic Approaches 8 

• NCCR Frontiers in Genetics – Genes, Chromosomes and Development 12 

• NCCR Molecular Life Sciences – Three Dimensional Structure, 16 

Folding and Interactions 

• NCCR Neuro – Neural Plasticity and Repair 20 

• NCCR Kidney.CH – Kidney Control of Homeostasis 25 

• NCCR SYNAPSY – The synaptic bases of mental diseases 28 

• NCCR TransCure – From transport physiology to identification of therapeutic targets 31 

• NCCR Chemical Biology – Visualisation and Control of Biological Processes 34 

Using Chemistry 

Environment and Sustainability 

• NCCR North-South – Research Partnership for Mitigating Syndromes 37 

of Global Change 

• NCCR Plant Survival in Natural and Agricultural Ecosystems 42 

• NCCR Climate Variability, Predictability and Climate Risks 46 

Technology 

• NCCR MaNep – Materials with Novel Electronic Properties 50 

• NCCR Nanoscale Science – Impact on Life Sciences, Sustainability, 54 

Information and Communication Technologies 

• NCCR Quantum Photonics 58 

• NCCR MUST – Molecular Ultrafast Sciences and Technology 61 

• NCCR Robotics – Intelligent Robots for Improving the Quality of Life 64 

• NCCR QSIT – Quantum Science and Technology 67 

Information and Communication Technology 

• NCCR IM2 – Interactive Multimodal Information Management 70 

• NCCR CO-ME – Computer Aided and Image Guided Medical Interventions 74 

Social Sciences and Humanities 

• NCCR FINRISK – Financial Valuation and Risk Management 78 

• NCCR Iconic Criticism – The Power and Meaning of Images 81 

• NCCR International Trade Regulation – From Fragmentation to Coherence 84 

• NCCR Mediality – Historical Perspectives 88 

• NCCR Democracy – Challenges to Democracy in the 21 st Century92 

• NCCR Affective Sciences: Emotion in Individual Behaviour and Social Processes 96 

• NCCR LIVES – Overcoming vulnerability: life course perspectives 100

National Centres of Competence 

in Research (NCCRs) 

Goals and Implementation 

In the year 2001 the Swiss National Science 

Foundation launched the National Centres of 

Competence in Research (NCCR). The main 

goal of the currently 26 NCCRs is the promotion 

of scientific excellence in areas of major 

strategic importance for the future of Swiss 

research, economy and society. NCCRs are 

managed by leading houses institutionally 

linked to universities or other distinguished 

research institutions (home institutions). In 

addition to the research teams at the home 

institution, an NCCR sets up a network of 

other research teams across Switzerland. 

The maximum duration of an NCCR is 12 

years. The three underlying principles of 

NCCRs are: 

• Research: NCCRs carry out research of 

excellent quality, spanning basic research to 

applications. There is a number of individual 

projects doing the actual research work in 

each NCCR. The NCCR director ensures the 

coherence and integration of the individual 

projects. 

• Knowledge and technology transfer: NCCRs 

develop links with the potential users of their 

results, and involve them in project planning 

from the outset. 

• Training and promotion of women: NCCRs 

create the necessary structures and implement 

measures required to train young scientists 

(doctoral and postdoctoral students). 

Particular attention is paid to the advancement 

of women in research. 

From a research policy point of view, NCCRs 

should contribute to a better structuring 

of the Swiss research environment, and to 

optimised task assignment between research 

institutions. 

NCCRs are funded by the Swiss National 

Science Foundation (SNSF), participating 

institutions – in particular the home institutions 

– and third parties. The 26 existing 

NCCRs receive a total of CHF 55 million in 

SNSF funding for 2013. 

Calls for submissions to set up NCCRs were 

first made in January 1999. Priority was given 

to four areas of research: life sciences, social 

sciences and humanities, sustainable development 

and environment, and information 

and communication technologies. A share of 

the overall budget was also made available 

to projects involving promising topics from 

outside these priority areas. The SNSF assessed 

the projects in two stages: a pre-proposal 

stage, with 82 projects submitted, and a 

full-proposal stage, with 34 submissions. 

The SNSF presented 18 full proposals of outstanding 

merit to the Federal Department of 

Home Affairs, which made the final selection 

of 14 NCCRs according to federal research 

policy in December 2000. 

A second call for NCCRs in the field of Social 

Sciences and Humanities was launched in 

October 2003. After a thorough evaluation of 

44 pre-proposals and 17 full proposals 6 new 

NCCRs started in autumn 2005. 

A third call launched in 2008 was open for 

all scientific fields. It resulted in the submission 

of 54 pre-proposals in December 2008 

and of 28 full proposals in September 2009. 

In March 2010 another 8 NCCRs were approved 

for funding. 

In summer 2009 several NCCRs could profit 

from the economic stimulus package decided 

by the Swiss government and parliament 

in order to fight the economic crisis. 28 out 

of 43 projects submitted jointly by NCCRs 

and companies were accepted. They run for 2 

years and focus on the transfer of results into 

practical applications. After a fourth NCCR 

call open to all disciplines 63 pre-proposals 

were submitted in 2012. In 2013 the SNSF 

will evaluate the expected 22 full proposals. 

Those which will be funded can start their 

work in 2014. 

Within the SNSF, Division IV of the National 

Research Council is responsible for NCCRs. 

An international Review Panel is set up for 

each NCCR to assess its progress regularly. 

Guide 2013 | 5

The NCCRs 

at a glance 

1 st Call of NCCRs 

Short Name NCCR-Director Home Institution Web Address 

Climate Prof. Stocker Thomas University of Berne www.nccr-climate.unibe.ch 

CO-ME Prof. Székely Gábor ETH Zurich co-me.ch 

FINRISK Prof. Habib Michel University of Zurich www.nccr-finrisk.ch 

Genetics Prof. Duboule Denis University of Geneva www.frontiers-in-genetics.org 

IM2 Prof. Bourlard Hervé Idiap Research Institute, Martigny www.im2.ch 

MaNEP Prof. Fischer Øystein University of Geneva www.manep.ch 

MICS* Prof. Aberer Karl EPF Lausanne www.mics.org 

Molecular Oncology Prof. Aguet Michel EPF Lausanne www.nccr-oncology.ch 

Nanoscale Science 

Prof. Schönenberger 

Christian 

University of Basel 

www.nanoscience.ch 

Neuro Prof. Schwab Martin University of Zurich www.nccr-neuro.uzh.ch 

North-South Prof. Hurni Hans University of Berne www.north-south.unibe.ch 

Plant Survival Prof. Turlings Ted University of Neuchâtel www.unine.ch/plantsurvival 

Quantum Photonics 

Prof. Devaud-Plédran 

Benoît 

EPF Lausanne 

nccr-qp.epfl.ch 

Structural Biology Prof. Grütter Markus University of Zurich www.structuralbiology.uzh.ch 

* Terminat ed in 2012 

2 nd Call of NCCRs 


Affective Sciences Prof. Scherer Klaus University of Geneva www.affective-sciences.org 

Democracy Prof. Kübler Daniel University of Zurich www.nccr-democracy.uzh.ch 

Iconic Criticism Prof. Ubl Ralph University of Basel www.eikones.ch 

Mediality Prof. Kiening Christian University of Zurich www.mediality.ch 

SESAM* Prof. Margraf Jürgen University of Basel www.sesamswiss.ch 

Trade Regulation Prof. Cottier Thomas University of Berne www.nccr-trade.org 

* Terminated in 2010 

3 rd Call of NCCRs 


Chemical Biology Prof. Riezman Howard 

University of Geneva, 

EPF Lausanne 

www.nccr-chembio.ch 

Kidney.CH Prof. Verrey François University of Zurich www.nccr-kidney.ch 

LIVES 

Prof. Spini Dario 

University of Lausanne, 

University of Geneva 

www.lives-nccr.ch 

MUST Prof. Keller Ursula ETH Zurich, University of Berne www.nccr-must.ch 

QSIT Prof. Ensslin Klaus ETH Zurich, University of Basel www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch 

Robotics Prof. Floreano Dario EPF Lausanne www.nccr-robotics.ch 

SYNAPSY Prof. Magistretti Pierre 

EPF Lausanne, University of 

Lausanne, University of Geneva 

www.nccr-synapsy.ch 

TransCure Prof. Hediger Matthias A. University of Berne www.transcure.org 

Output in 2001 - 2009 

(1 st and 2 nd Call of NCCRs) 

Type 2001 - 2006 2006 - 2009 

Scientific papers 7 100 10 400 

Presentations at congresses and fairs 6 700 11 400 

Patents/licences 126 142 

Start up companies 1 17 35 

Prototypes, demonstrators, processes 131 250 

Cooperations with private sector 277 630 

CTI projects 2 28 3 41 4 

1 

Built up or encouraged by the NCCRs 

2 

CTI: Innovation Promotion Agency of the Swiss Government funding cooperation projects with industry 

3 

The total amount of the 28 projects is about CHF 31.7 Mio. 

4 

The total amount of the 41 projects is about CHF 40.8 Mio. 

6 | Guide 2013

Total of funds in 2001 - 2004 

(1 st Call of NCCRs) 

Funding source (CHF) 2001 2002 2003 2004 Total % 

SNSF funding 51 034 237 57 303 066 58 114 035 57 607 320 224 058 658 37 

Self-funding from home 

institutions 1 18 685 602 20 762 660 19 157 137 19 722 980 78 328 379 13 

Self-funding from project 

participants 

39 364 540 51 884 528 64 851 723 69 156 289 225 257 080 37 

Third-party funding 2 8 861 639 16 620 401 27 986 869 29 546 417 83 015 326 13 

Total 117 946 018 146 570 655 170 109 764 176 033 006 610 659 443 100 

1 

Personnel costs, equipment and consumables, not included infrastructure and basic equipment 

2 

Not included is CTI funding (cf. above) 


(1 st and 2 nd Call of NCCRs) 


SNSF funding 66 955 000 65 567 000 63 341 000 61 537 000 257 400 000 35 


institutions1 21 117 710 23 852 187 22 725 242 26 198 486 93 893 625 13 

Self-funding from other 

institutions2 6 095 240 5 677 322 5 153 897 4 729 639 21 656 098 3 


participants 

68 003 946 72 138 404 65 352 264 60 880 145 266 374 759 36 


Total 192 384 786 188 147 153 179 571 287 172 362 540 732 465 766 100 

1 


2 

See the NCCRs Molecular Oncology, Neuro and Structural Biology 

3 

Not included is CTI funding (cf. page 6 and some NCCRs) 


(1 st , 2 nd and 3 rd Call of NCCRs) 


SNSF funding 77 425 000 4 74 215 000 67 225 000 62 068 000 280 933 000 32 


institutions1 33 123 040 36 964 876 36 205 840 32 581 227 138 874 983 16 

Self-funding from other 

institutions2 5 606 179 7 865 727 7 650 100 7 450 100 28 572 106 3 


participants 

99 151 676 100 447 906 91 544 556 66 645 639 357 789 777 41 


Total 232 422 058 237 671 547 219 909 545 184 089 931 874 093 081 100 

1 


2 

See the NCCRs Molecular Oncology, Neuro and Structural Biology 

3 

Not included is CTI funding 

4 

Included funding of economic stimulus package projects , transfer projects (strong Swiss franc package) 

Total of persons involved in the NCCRs in the last reporting period (12 months) 

(1 st , 2 nd and 3 rd Call of NCCRs) 

Personnel 

Total Female % Male % Swiss Other 

of Persons 

Nations 

Management 102 1 139 45 167 55 193 32 

Master students 26 14 54 12 46 22 2 

Doctoral students 1106 458 41 648 59 402 311 

Postdoctoral students 630 200 32 430 68 95 212 

Research associates 203 90 44 113 56 94 46 

Senior researchers 2 1163 213 18 939 82 502 226 

Other staff 539 305 57 233 43 328 87 

Total 3769 1419 36 2542 64 1636 916 

1 

Full-time equivalent, including NCCR-Director and persons in charge of knowledge and technology transfer, 

and education and training 

2 

Including leaders of the individual projects and other organisational units of the NCCRs 


Molecular Oncology – From Basic 

Research to Therapeutic Approaches 

NCCR Molecular Oncology 

Home Institution 

EPFL, Lausanne 

Start of the NCCR 

May 1, 2001 

NCCR Management 

Director 

Aguet Michel, Prof. 

Associate Director 

Deka Jürgen, Dr. 

phone: +41 (0)21 314 77 22 

jurgen.deka@epfl.ch 

Office 

Valérie Le Dreau, Mrs. 

phone: +41 (0)21 314 71 50 

valerie.ledreau@epfl.ch 

Public Relations 

Valérie Le Dreau 

Knowledge and 

Technology Transfer 


Education and Training 

Deka Jürgen, Dr. 

Advancement of Women 

Brisken Cathrin, Prof. 

Address 


Institut Suisse 

de Recherche Expérimentale 

sur le Cancer, EPFL 

c/o Institut Universitaire 

de Pathologie 

Rue du Bugnon 25 

1011 Lausanne 

phone: + 41 (0)21 314 71 50 

nccr.oncology@epfl.ch 

Web Address 

www.nccr-oncology.ch 

Research 

Cell Signaling in Tumor 

Development and Metastasis 

The progesterone-Wnt connection 

and early events in 

human breast carcinogenesis 

Head: Brisken C. 

Mechanisms controlling 

tissue homeostasis and their 

role 

in cancerogenesis and 

metastasis 

H: Hülsken J. 

Sarcoma-development and 

the role of the tumor stroma 

H: Stamenkovic I. 

The role of IL-1 

in tumorigenesis 

H: Fasel N. 

Large-scale analysis 

of functional genomics data 

H: Delorenzi M. 

Epigenetics and gene 

expression signatures in 

human glioblastoma and 

glioma stem like cells and 

implications for tumor biology 

and treatment of cancer 

H: Hegi M. 

Regulation of colorectal 

cancer progression 

H: Petrova T. 

BCL9/BCL9L as targets for 

suppression of cancer stem 

cells and restoring susceptibility 

to therapy in colon and 

other cancers 

H: Aguet M. 

Identification and Validation 

of microRNAs important 

for pancreatic cancer liver 

metastasis 

H: Hanahan D. 

Perturbation of adaptor 

protein complexes by highaffinity 

monobodies in chronic 

myelogenous leukemia 

H: Hantschel O. 

In vivo monitoring of the 

efficacy of genetic and pharmacological 

NF-kB inhibition 

in a preclinical mouse model 

of human lung adenocarcinoma 

H: Meylan E. 

Tumor Angiogenesis 

Impact of antiangiogenic 

treatments on tumor evolution 

and tumor microenvironment 

H: Rüegg C. 

The molecular regulation 

of tumor lymphangiogenesis 

and lymphnode metastasis 

H: Christofori G. 

Role of lymphatic 

vessels in cancer invasion 

and metastasiss 

H: Swartz M. 

Role of distinct macrophage 

subsets in tumor angiogenesis 

and progression 

H: De Palma M. 

Tumor Immunity and Cancer 

Immunotherapy 

Analysis of in vivo differentiation 

and function, and 

molecular dissection of antigen 

specific CD8 T cells before 

and after immunotherapy 

of melanoma patients 

H: Speiser D. 

Rufer N. 

Structural design 

of peptide/MHC and T cell 

receptor interactions 

H: Michielin O. 


• Newsletter NCCR 

• News and press coverage 

on website 

• Press releases 

Heads of Individual Research Projects 


Institut Suisse de Recherche Expérimentale sur le Cancer, 


Brisken Cathrin, Prof. 



Christofori Gerhard, Prof. Dept. of Clinical-Biological Sciences, University of Basel 

Delorenzi Mauro, Dr. 

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne 

De Palma Michele, Prof. 



Fasel Nicolas, Prof. 

Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne 

Hanahan Douglas, Prof. 



Hantschel Oliver, Prof. 



Hegi Monika, Prof. 

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne 

Hülsken Jörg, Prof. 



Meylan Etienne, Prof. 



Michielin Olivier, Prof. 

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne 


Topics 

Cancer cells are defective 

in basic processes controlling 

cell differentiation 

and proliferation, genome 

stability and programmed 

cell death. They acquire 

capacities to invade tissues, 

to stimulate angiogenesis, 

and to elicit innate and in 

some instances specific immune 

responses. The Swiss 

Institute for Experimental 

Cancer Research (ISREC), 

an institute of the School of 

Life Sciences of the Ecole 

Polytechnique Fédérale de 

Lausanne (EPFL), forms 

together with several partner 

institutes (Ludwig Institute 

for Cancer Research, 

Department of Biochemistry 

of the University of 

Lausanne, Swiss Institute 

of Bioinformatics) a biomedical 

research network 

in Lausanne. The research 

Petrova Tatiana, Prof. 

Romero Pedro, Prof. 

Rüegg Curzio, Prof. 

Rufer Nathalie, Dr. 

Speiser Daniel, Prof. 

Stamenkovic Ivan, Prof. 

Swartz Melody, Prof. 

Centre pluridisciplinaire d‘oncologie, Lausanne 

Ludwig Institut for Cancer Research, Epalinges 

Université Fribourg, Département de médecine 

Centre pluridisciplinaire d‘oncologie, Lausanne 

Ludwig Institut de Recherches sur le Cancer, Epalinges 

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, CHUV, Lausanne 

Institut of Bioengineering, EPF Lausanne 

Partner Institutions 

Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research LICR, Lausanne Branch 

Department of Biochemistry of the University of Lausanne DB, UNIL 

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics SIB, Lausanne Branch 

Centre Pluridisciplinaire d’Oncologie CePO 

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois CHUV 

Department of Medecine, University of Fribourg 

Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel 

Members of the Advisory Board 

Tumor-Host Interaction and Apoptosis 

Ashkenazi Avi, Prof. 

Carmeliet Peter, Prof. 

Rommelaere Jean, Prof. 

Genentech Inc., San Francisco, US 

Catholic University of Leuven, BE 

Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum DKFZ, Heidelberg, DE 

DNA-Microarrays, Bioinformatics and Tumor Specific Gene Expression 

Ansorge Wilhelm, Prof. 

European Molecular Biology Laboratory EMBL, Heidelberg, DE 

Collins Peter, Prof. 

University of Cambridge, GB 

Guha Abhijit, Prof. 

University of Toronto, CA 

Liu Edison, Prof. 

Genome Institute of Singapore, SG 

Van‘t Veer Laura, Dr. 

Netherlands Cancer Institute NKI, Amsterdam, NL 

Immunotherapy 

Greenberg Philip, Prof. 

Lanzavecchia Antonio, Prof. 

Melief Cees J. M., Prof. 

focuses on different aspects 

of basic tumor biology and 

the host response to cancer. 

Work at ISREC centers 

on the discovery of genes 

that play important roles 

in tumorigenesis and metastasis, 

using genetic approaches 

in human cancer 

cell lines and model organisms. 

A research module integrating 

projects from the 

EPFL and the Universities 

of Basel and Fribourg investigates 

the role of blood 

and lymph vessels in tumor 

invasion and metastasis. 

Other groups in the ISREC 

and the Ludwig Institute for 

Cancer Research elucidate 

the mechanisms that control 

immune responses to 

cancer. Research projects 

in external institutes and 

clinics, also in other parts 

of Switzerland, complement 

the research portfolio 

of this cancer research program. 

The projects of the NCCR 

Molecular Oncology form 

a basis for the design of 

novel approaches to cancer 

therapy, and the program 

provides us with the means 

to explore such prospects, 

through cooperation with 

our partners in different 

University hospitals. The 

NCCR has also been essential 

for supporting technology 

development and core 

facilities necessary for such 

clinically oriented research. 

Finally, the program provides 

training opportunities 

for MD/PhDs to foster 

the development of translational 

oncology in Switzerland. 

University of Seattle & Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research 

Center, US 

Istituto di Ricerca in Biomedicina IRB, Bellinzona, CH 

Leiden University, NL 

Third Party Cooperation 

Programmes 

• SmArt (FP7) 

Research Institutions 

• A.I.Virtanen Institute for 

Molecular Sciences, University 

of Kuopio, FI 

• Biobix: lab for computational 

genomics & bioinformatics, 

University of Gent, Gent, BE 

• Brain Tumor Group, 

European Organization 

for Research and Treatment 

of Cancer, Brussels, BE 

• Center for Human Genetics and 

Dept. of Gastro-Enterology, 

University Hospital 

Gasthuisberg, Leuven, BE 

• Center for Molecular Medicine, 

University of Köln, Köln, DE 

• Centre Hospitalier Universitaire 

Vaudois, Lausanne, CH 

• CIBM, Centre Hospitalier 

Universitaire Vaudois, 

Lausanne, CH 

• Department for Biochemistry 

and Molecular Biology, University 

of Chicago, Chicago, US 

• Department of Molecular 

Embryology, Max-Planck 

Institute for Immunobiology, 

Freiburg, DE 

• Department of Neuropathology, 

Department of Neuropathology, 

Valore, IN 

• Department of Pathology, University 

of Geneva, Geneva, CH 

• Department of Physics of 

Complex Systems, Weizmann 

Institute of Science, Rehovot, IL 

• Department of Surgical 

Oncology, Erasmus University 

Hospital, Rotterdam, NL 

• Department Oncological 

Sciences, University of Torino, 

Torino, IT 

• IFOM-IEO, Milan, IT 

• Impact du Microenvironnement 

sur l`Angiogenèse et l`Invasion 

Tumorale, Centre de Recherche 

INSERM, Strasbourg, FR 

• Institut contre l’arthrose, Lausanne, 

CH 

• Institute of Molecular Medicine, 

University of Lisbon, PT 

• MD Cancer Centre, The University 

of Texas, Houston, US 

• Medical Biochemistry and Molecular 

Biology, Oulu Center for 

Cell-Matrix Research, Oulou, FI 

• Molecular Life Sciences, 

Universität Frankfurt, DE 

• Neurosurgery, Centre 

Hospitalier Universitaire 


• Pathology, Université de 

Fribourg, CH 

• Pharmaceutical Biochemistry, 


Geneva, CH 

• Service de medécine nucleaire, 

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire 



Molecular Oncology – From Basic 

Research to Therapeutic Approaches 


• Service de radiothérapie, 

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire 


• SIB, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale 

de Lausanne, Lausanne, CH 

• Signalling and cancer, Friedrich 

Mischer Institute, Basel, CH 

• University of Japan, JP 

• University of Tübingen, 

Tübingen, DE 

Economy / Industry 

• Adipogen SA, Epalinges, CH 

• Apoxis SA, Lausanne, CH 

• Bracco Research SA, 

Geneva, CH 

• BTG International Ltd., 

London, GB 

• Cytos Biotechnology Inc, 

Zürich, CH 

• Glaxo Smith Kline, PA, US 

• Ipsogen SAS, Marseille, FR 

• MDxHealth Inc., Liège, BE 

• Novartis Pharma, Bern, CH 

• Pfizer, La Jolla, CA, US 

• The Genetics Company, 

Schlieren, CH 

Others 

• Association pour la recherche 

sur le Cancer, Villejuif, FR 

• Fondation Institut Suisse de la 

Recheche Experimental contre 

le cancer, Lausanne, CH 

• Fondation ISREC, Epalinges, CH 

• German Research Fundation, 

Bonn, DE 

• Krebsforschung Schweiz, 

Berne, CH 

Achievements of the previous years 

New spirit 

The NCCR has created a 

new spirit of greater mutual 

interest across the borders 

between basic and clinical 

research. Several collaborative 

projects involving 

scientists at ISREC and 

more clinically oriented 

research groups at the University 

Hospital Lausanne 

(CHUV) and other Swiss 

university clinics have been 

started. Some of these projects 

include partnerships 

with pharmaceutical companies 

(e.g. Pfizer). 

New insights 

Novel molecular events underlying 

the development of 

certain tumour types have 

been elucidated. Cell types 

from which these tumours 

arise have been identified. 

Mechanisms, which control 

cell division and the degree 

of specialization of normal 

cells have been unravelled 

and may prove relevant for 

malignant tumour progression. 

New models to investigate 

the development 

of tumour metastases in 

distant organs have been 

established. These discoveries 

provide a basis for 

the identification and validation 

of novel therapeutic 

approaches. 

New therapeutic 

developments 

A clinical study has been 

completed to investigate 

how tumours control their 

blood supply. A further 

clinical trial is currently 

underway to assess the efficacy 

of anti-angiogenic 

therapy in patients with 

head and neck tumours. 

Novel strategies have been 

developed to direct the 

patient’s immune system 

against the tumour. Immunisation 

of melanoma patients 

with tumour derived 

antigens proved to be successful 

in eliciting a strong 

tumour specific immune 

response. 

The pattern of differentially 

regulated genes has been 

analysed in several human 

tumour types (breast, brain, 

skin). Results from such 

studies allowed identifying 

new tumour subtypes and 

in some cases new prognostic 

markers. They may 

eventually lead to the identification 

of gene profiles, 

which are predictive of a 

response to therapy. 

New research groups 

Five new positions for junior 

research group leaders 

equivalent to assistant 

professorships have been 

created to strengthen advanced 

biocomputing and 

research that is directly 

cancer relevant. 

New technologies 

The NCCR Molecular Oncology 

allowed to establish 

or strengthen important 

technology platforms. The 

animal facility allowed the 

development of novel cancer 

mouse models, which 

mimic the genetic alterations 

and the behavior of 

human tumours and are 

indispensable for the validation 

of new therapeutic 

targets. The DNA array 

and bioinformatics core 

faci lities supported several 

novel cancer relevant projects 

at the interface to the 

clinic. 

Training 

The NCCR Molecular Oncology 

provides education 

and training in cancer research 

at several levels. It 

participates and strengthens 

the ISREC International 

PhD Programme and 

the MD/PhD programme 

of the University of Lausanne, 

providing medical 

doctors with an opportunity 

to carry out a PhD thesis in 

molecular oncology. The 

NCCR presently supports 

the training of approximately 

30 PhD students 

and 30 postdoctoral fellows. 

NCCR advanced courses in 

microscopy, imaging and 

morphology have been carried 

out by the NCCR imaging 

facility (MIM) for users 

including students from the 

University of Lausanne and 

the EPFL. 

Further information see 

www.nccr-oncology.ch 


Statistical Input – Output Data 

Funding source (CHF) Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 Total % 

SNSF funding 1 490 000 3 490 000 3 000 000 1 500 000 8 480 000 25 


institution 2 793 206 793 205 793 205 793 205 3 172 821 9 

Self-funding from 

University of Lausanne 

700 000 700 000 700 000 700 000 2 800 000 8 


participants 

3 635 784 2 926 517 3 480 066 2 291 111 12 333 478 36 


Total 7 696 231 9 564 302 10 112 921 6 985 037 34 358 491 100 

Personnel 4 

Total of 

Persons 

Female % Male % CH Most Represented Nations Other 

Nations 

IT FR DE ES US 

Management 1.3 5 1 20 4 80 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 

Master students 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 

Doctoral students 28 13 46 15 54 10 4 2 1 0 1 13 

Postdoctoral students 45 24 53 21 47 7 6 5 5 4 2 17 

Research associates 6 3 50 3 50 3 0 1 1 0 1 1 

Senior researchers 6 28 8 29 20 71 11 3 1 6 0 3 4 

Other staff 27 16 59 11 41 12 3 5 3 1 0 4 

Total 135.30 65 47 74 53 45 16 14 17 5 8 40 

Type of output 7 

Totals 

Publications > 665 Peer-reviewed | 45 Not peer-reviewed | 20 Anthology articles | 21 Books | 3 Reports 754 

Presentations at congresses > 965 

Cooperations > 16 Programmes | 86 Research institutions | 51 Private sector | 70 Other 223 

Transfer activities > 15 Patents | 0 Licenses | 0 Start-ups 8 | 11 Prototypes/processes | 1 CTI-projects 9 27 

1 

Included funding of economic stimulus package 

2 


3 

Not included is CTI funding. Since the start of the NCCR 1 project has been funded by CTI at a total amount 

of 1.1 million CHF (cf. third table). 

4 

Persons involved in the NCCR in the last reporting period (12 months) 

5 



6 

Including leaders of the individual projects and other organisational units of the NCCR 

7 

This table displays the major indicators in knowledge and technology transfer; other data is available as well (see text on 

“achievements”). The output data of NCCRs differ considerably according to disciplinary cultures. 

8 

Start-up companies that have been built up or were considerably supported by NCCRs. 

9 

Projects funded by the Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI) that have been initiated by members of NCCRs 

and are thematically linked to NCCR projects. 

Evaluation and Monitoring by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) 

Members of the Review Panel 

Kléber André, Prof. (Chair) 

Ben-Ze’ev Avri, Prof. 

Cavalli Franco, Prof. 

Cerundolo Vincenzo, Prof. 

Dalla-Favera Riccardo, Prof. 

Dehio Christoph, Prof. 

Huber Christoph, Prof. 

Müller Hans-Joachim, Prof. 

Polyak Kornelia, Prof. 

Werner Sabine, Prof. 

Yaniv Moshe, Prof. 

NCCR Office SNSF 

Christ Urs, Dr. 

Swiss National Science Foundation, Berne, CH 

Department of Molecular Cell Biology, The Weizmann Institute 

of Science, IL 

Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, 

Ospedale San Giovanni, Bellinzona, CH 

Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, GB 

Institute of Cancer Genetics, Columbia University, 

New York, US 


Clinical Regulatory Affairs, Translational Oncology Institut-TRON, 

Mainz, DE 

Pharma Research Penzberg, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, DE 

Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 

Harvard Medical School, Boston, US 


Institut Pasteur, Unité des Virus Oncogènes, Paris, FR 

Schweiz. Nationalfonds, Wildhainweg 3, 3001 Bern 

phone: + 41 (0)31 308 23 50, fax: + 41 (0)31 305 29 71, christ@snf.ch 


Frontiers in Genetics – Genes, 

Chromosomes and Development 

NCCR Genetics 




July 1, 2001 


Director 

Duboule Denis, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)22 379 67 71 

denis.duboule@frontiers-ingenetics.org 

Deputy Director 

Trono Didier, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)21 693 17 51 

didier.trono@frontiers-ingenetics.org 

NCCR Executive Officer 

Suarez Mougli, Dr. 

phone: + 41 (0)22 379 67 82 

mougli.suarez@frontiers-ingenetics.org 

Office Secretary 

Bliggenstorfer Nema, Mrs. 

Knowledge and Technology 

Transfer 



Rodriguez Ivan, Prof. 



Communication 

Pizurki Lara, Dr. 

Webmaster 

Thièvent Alain, Dr. 

Address 

NCCR Frontiers in Genetics 

Sciences III 

Université de Genève 

Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 30 

1211 Genève 4 

phone: + 41 (0)22 379 67 82 

fax: + 41 (0)22 379 61 50 

management@frontiers-ingenetics.org 

Web Address 

www.frontiers-in-genetics.org 


• New section on our web site: 

“Genetics for All” 

• Forum of biology 

(in coordination with the 

Swiss television - TSR1) 

• Press Releases, news and 

advertisements 

• Leaflets (English & French) 

• Weeks of study for secondary 

school students 

• Public events 

(open doors, teachings, 

trainings, exhibitions) 

• Meetings 

Research 

Work Package 1 

Novel approaches 

in functional genomics 

Coordinator: Trono D. 

Members: Antonarakis S., 

Basler K., Deplancke B., 

Dermitzakis E., Duboule D., 

Karch F., Rodriguez I., Roska B., 

Schibler U., Wahli W. 


Energy homeostasis 

Coordinator: Thorens B. 

Members: Hernandez N., 

Herrera P., Nef S., Schibler U., 

Wahli W. 


Antonarakis Stylianos E., Prof. 

Basler Konrad, Prof. 

Deplancke Bart, Prof. 

Dermitzakis Emanouil, Prof. 


Gasser Susan M., Prof. 

Gonzalez-Gaitan Marcos, Prof. 

Gotta Monica, Prof. 

Halazonetis Thanos, Prof. 

Hernandez Nouria, Prof. 

Herrera Pedro, Dr. 

Herr Winship, Prof. 


The dialog between DNA and 

the nucleus influences gene 

expression and replication 

Coordinator: Shore D. 

Members: Gasser S., 

Halazonetis T., Laemmli U., 

Lingner J., Stutz F. 

Technological 

Platforms, Programs etc. 

Genomics platform 

(Genotyping and 

transcriptome profiling) 

Manager: Docquier M. 

Bioimaging platform 

(Image analysis) 

Manager: Bauer C. 

Fly C31 

H: Basler K. 

Metabolic Evaluation Facility 

H: Torens B. 

Lentiviral Vectors 

H: Trono D. 

Doctoral School 

Dean: Rodriguez I., 

Supervisor: Suarez M. 

Département de Médécine Génétique et Développement, 


Institut für Molekularbiologie, Universität Zürich 

Laboratoire de Génétique et Biologie des Systèmes, EPFL 



Département de Génétique et Evolution,Université de Genève 

Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel 

Département de Biochemie, Université de Genève 



Département de Biologie Moléculaire, Université de Genève 

Centre Intégratif de Génomique, Université de Lausanne 





Topics 

Karch François, Dr. 

Laemmli Ulrich K., Prof. 

Lingner Joachim, Dr. 

Loewith Robbie, Prof. 

Nef Serge, Dr. 

Rodriguez Ivan, Prof. 

Roska Botond, Dr. 

Ruiz i Altaba Ariel, Prof. 

Schibler Ueli, Prof. 

Shore David M., Prof. 

Stutz Françoise, Dr. 

Thorens Bernard, Prof. 

Trono Didier, Prof. 

Wahli Walter, Prof. 

The general goal of the 

NCCR Frontiers in Genetics 

– Genes, Chromosomes 

and Development is to understand 

the function and 

regulation of genes during 

the development of cells 

and organisms. These fundamental 

problems are 

tackled at four different 

levels, namely at the level 

of genes, of chromosomes, 

of the whole cell and of the 

entire organism. In order 

to reach excellence in this 

domain, it is neccessary to 

bridge the gaps between 

these levels. The NCCR 

Genetics contributes to diminish 

these gaps by creating 

a network of scientist, 

which work together on 

common projects (organized 

as Work Packages, 

WP). These WPs provide 

an ideal forum for the indepth 

discussion of scientific 

issues by all interested 

persons (including 

post-doctoral fellows and 

students). The aim of the 

third phase (2009-2013) is 

to complete the integration 

of its educational and scientific 

program within the 

participating institutions. 

In this view, three Work 

Packages were implemented, 

in collaboration 

with the three institutions 

of the Lemanic region and 

the on-site technological 

platforms that have been 

developed by these institutions 

in close contact with 

the NCCR. 

Some projects directly related 

to technological development 

are pursued in the 

context of our technological 

platforms. These platforms 

provide shared common facilities 

in which the latest 

technologies in Genomics 

and Bioimaging are available 

for the regional scientific 

community. 

Another major goal is to 

offer the best graduate 

school in genetics. We believe 

that to pursue top 

science, we need to attract 

the best students worldwide 

and “create” the next 

generation of top scientists 

through teaching. 

Département de Zoologie et Biologie Animale, 


Départements de Biologie Moléculaire et Biochimie, 


ISREC, Epalinges 




Département de Génétique et Evolution, Université de Genève 

Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel 





Département de Biologie Cellulaire, Université de Genève 


Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 



Programmes 

• CAPPELLA 

• CRESCENDO 

• EUCLOCK 

• EUMODIC 

• Euro-Bioimaging initiative 

• EuroDYNA 

• GEUVADIS 

• HFSP 

• Human Frontiers Science Program 

• IMIDIA 

• National Institute of Health 

• Polish-Swiss Research 

Programme 

• TORNADO 


• Biological Sciences - 

Neurobiology, Columbia 

University, New York, US 

• Cell Biology and Genetics, 

Erasmus University 

Rotterdam, NL 

• Cell Biology Division, New York 

University School of Medicine, US 

• Center of Genome Regulation, 

University of Barcelona, ES 

• Clinical Molecular Biology, 

Kyoto University, JP 

• Département des neurosciences 

cliniques et dermatologie, 

Haute Ecole ARC – Ingénierie, 

St. Imier, CH 

• Department of Biochemistry 

and Molecular Biology, 

University of Georgia, Athens, US 

• Department of Biochemistry and 

Molecular Biophysics, Columbia 


• Department of Biochemistry, 

Erasmus University Medical 

Center, Rotterdam, NL 

• Department of Cell Biology, 

Albert Einstein College 

of Medicine, New York, US 

• Department of Computer Science, 

Washington University, 

St. Louis, US 

• Department of Developmental 

Biology, University of Texas 

Southwestern, Dallas, US 

• Department of Genetics 

and Microbiology, 

University of Pavia, IT 

• Department of Medicine, 

Medical University Graz, AT 

• Department of Veterinary 

and Comparative Anatomy, 

Washington, US 

• Developmental Biology Unit, 

European Molecular Biology 

Laboratory, Heidelberg, DE 

• Division of Gene Therapy, 

University of Ulm, DE 

• Université de Bourgogne, 

Dijon, FR 

• European Molecular Biology 

Organization, Heidelberg, DE 

• Faculty of Applied Biological 

Science, Hiroshima University, JP 

• Faculty of Pharmacy-Ste-Justine 

Hospital, University of 

Montreal, CA 


Frontiers in Genetics – Genes, 

Chromosomes and Development 

NCCR Genetics 

• Genetics and Development, 

Montreal, CA 

• Gene Expression and Regulation 

Program, Wistar Institute, 

Philadelphia, US 

• Health Science Center, University 

of Utah, Salt Lake City, US 

• Institut de Génétique Humaine, 

Université de Montpellier, FR 

• Institute for Molecular Biology, 

Hannover Medical School, DE 

• Institut Jacques Monod, 

Université Paris Diderot, FR 

• Institut National de la Santé 

et de la Recherche Médicale, 

Université de Lille, FR 

• Instituto de Bioquimica 

Vegetal y Fotointesis, 

Universidad de Sevilla, ES 

• Jussieu Paris I, FR 

• Max Planck Institute for 

Experimental Endocrinology, 

Hannover, DE 

• Max Planck Institute for Molecular 

Biology, Munich, DE 

• Mechanisms of cancer, FMI, 

Basel, CH 

• MRC University of Edinburgh, 

Centre for Inflammation Research, 

Scotland, GB 

• Muséum National d’Histoire 

Naturelle, Paris, FR 

• Neuroscience Center, University 

of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US 

• Oncosuisse, Berne, CH 

• Quantitative Biology and 

Bioinformatics Group, Technical 

Research Centre of Finland, 

Helsinki, FI 

• School of Biological Sciences, 

Nanyang Technological 

University, Singapore, SG 

• Section on Developmental 

Neurobiology, National Institutes 

of Health, Washington DC, US 

• Stowers Institute for Medical 

Research, Molecular Biology, 

Kansas City, US 

• Systems Neurobiology 

Laboratories, Salk Institute for 

Biological Studies, La Jolla, US 

• Telethon Institute of Genetics 

and Medicine, Naples, IT 

• Unité d’Endocrinologie et 

Métabolisme, Université 

Catholique de Louvain, 

Brussels, BE 

• Université de Rennes, FR 

• Vanderbilt University, 

Nashville, US 


• Affymetrix, Santa Clara, US 

• Bioresearch & Partners, 

Monthey, CH 

• Bitplane, Zurich, CH 

• Leica Microsystems, 

Glattbrugg, CH 

• L’Oreal, Paris, FR 

• Novartis Institute for BioMedical 

Research NIBR, CH 

• Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, CH 


Research 

NCCR funding has not only 

reinforced the scientific 

productivity of many member 

groups, allowing them 

to stay at the forefront of 

international competition 

in their respective fields 

of research, but has also 

allowed the emergence 

of younger group leaders. 

Collaborative projects are 

now delivering and a new 

culture of networking has 

been installed. 

Education 

Our doctoral school is up 

and running. The organization 

of an international 

program, while promoting 

a strong national participation, 

was a challenge. 

This school is unique in 

Switzerland and its access 

is extremely competitive. 

The University of Geneva 

launched a new master of 

Science program in fall 2010 

entitled ‚Genetics, development 

and evolution‘. Eight 

of the 14 researcher groups 

participatingin the program 

are members of the NCCR. 

Technological platforms 

NCCR funding has been an 

essential catalyst to equip 

the Lemanic region with 

state-of-the-art technological 

platforms, in particular 

in genomics technologies, 

which would otherwise 

have been beyond our 

means. These platforms are 

very successful and heavily 

used by customers from 

the entire country, including 

clinicians or scientists 

working in research areas 

unrelated to those pursued 

by the NCCR itself. 

Frontiers in Genetics, via 

its direct link with the SVS 

program (Life, Sciences 

and Society), has also been 

instrumental in launching 

a common structure for 

animal houses in the Lausanne-Geneva 

area. 

Infrastructural effects 

The NCCR had a major impact 

on the local scientific 

priorities within the Faculties 

of science and medicine 

of the host institution, in 

terms of budget, positions 

and infrastructures. Genetics 

has been declared as 

one of the six general research 

priorities by the rector 

of Geneva University. 

The Centre for Integrative 

Genomics (CIG), launched 

via the SVS program at the 

University of Lausanne, is 

fully running and the EPFL 

is actively reinforcing basic 

research in genetics. 

Our NCCR is being integrated 

within a new institute, 

named iGE3 (Geneva 

Institut of Genetics and 

Genomics). The structure 

of iGE3 includes most of 

the scientists of the Faculty 

of Medicine and the 

Biology Section of the 

host institution. Representatives 

from the faculties 

have been elected (3 NCCR 

members out of 5) and the 

first director will be Professor 

Stylianos Antonarakis 

(4- year rotating mandate). 

iGE3 was inaugurated at 

the end of 2011. 

Visibility, public understanding 

of science 

Frontiers in Genetics has 

continued to support numerous 

scientific events 

(local or national conferences 

and public manifestations) 

and has strengthened 

its collaborations with 

the local press. The NCCR’s 

visibility is also ensured all 

year around through its 

leading activity of the forum 

Questions à un biologiste 

on the website of the Télévision 

Suisse Romande. 


www.frontiers-in-genetics.org 




SNSF funding 3 500 000 2 000 000 2 000 000 1 000 000 8 500 000 32 


institution 1 2 972 903 3 784 688 3 158 349 525 000 10 440 940 25 


participants 

3 780 123 3 817 815 4 099 903 0 11 697 841 34 

Third-party funding 2 1 542 720 1 037 655 1 542 761 0 4 123 136 10 

Total 11 795 746 10 640 158 10 801 013 1 525 000 34 761 917 100 

• Phistem, Geneva, CH 

• Pyrosequencing AB, Uppsala, SE 

• SANOFI PASTEUR SA, Lyon, FR 

• SANOFI PASTEUR SA, 

Montpellier, FR 

• Serono international SA, 

Genève, CH 

• The Genetics Company, Inc., 

Zürich, CH 

Other 

• Canadian MRC fellowship, 

Ottawa, CH 

• Erwin Schrödinger Fellowships, 

Vienna, AT 

• European Foundation for the 

Study of Diabetes, EFSD & Merck 

Sharp & Dohme, Düsseldorf, DE 

• Fellowship from the Roche 

Research Foundation, Bern, CH 

• Juvenile Diabetes Research 

Foundation, US 

• NIH, US 

Personnel 3 

Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

FR IT DE US ES 

Management 3.7 4 2 18 9 82 8 1 2 0 2 1 2 






Other staff 46 32 70 14 30 33 11 2 0 0 0 2 

Total 172.70 81 45 99 55 86 30 18 7 8 5 38 


Totals 





1 


2 

Not included is CTI funding. Since the start of the NCCR 1 project has been funded by CTI at a total amount of 80 000.00 CHF (cf. third table). 

3 


4 

Full-time equivalent, including NCCR-Director and persons in charge of knowledge and technology transfer, and education and training 

5 


6 

This table displays the major indicators in knowledge and technology transfer; other data is available as well 

(see text on “achievements”). The output data of NCCRs differ considerably according to disciplinary cultures. 

7 


8 






Almouzni Geneviève, Dr. 


Hoeijmakers Jan H.J., Prof. 

Lindpaintner Klaus, Prof. 

McMahon Andrew, Prof. 

Rosbash Michael, Prof. 

Schaffner Walter, Prof. 




Laboratoire de dynamique nucléaire et plasticité du génome, 

Institut Curie, Paris, FR 


Dept. of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University, 

Rotterdam, NL 

Roche Genetics and Roche Center for Medical Genomics, 

F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, CH 

Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, 

Cambridge, US 

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, 

Waltham, US 



phone: + 41 (0)31 308 23 50, fax: + 41 (0)31 305 29 71, uchrist@snf.ch 



University of Zurich 

Molecular Life Sciences – 

Three Dimensional Structure, 


NCCR Structural Biology 


May 1, 2001 


Director 

Grütter Markus Gerhard, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)44 635 55 80 

gruetter@bioc.uzh.ch 


Richmond Timothy J., Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)44 633 24 70 

richmond@mol.biol.ethz.ch 

Coordinator 

Ghose Sraboni, Dr. 

phone: + 41 (0)44 635 54 84 

s.ghose@bioc.uzh.ch 

Administrative Assistant 

Schmid Brigitte, Mrs. 

phone: + 41 (0)44 635 55 82 

brigitte.schmid@bioc.uzh.ch 

Communication 

Ghose Sraboni, Dr. 

Knowledge and 


Plückthun Andreas, Prof. 


Glockshuber Rudolf, Prof. 


van Gunsteren Wilfred, Prof. 

Address 

NCCR Bureau 

Structural Biology 

Sraboni Ghose 

Institute of Biochemistry 


Winterthurerstrasse 190 

8057 Zurich 

phone: + 41 (0)44 635 54 84 

fax: + 41 (0)44 635 68 34 

s.ghose@bioc.uzh.ch 

Research 

Areas 

Structural biology 

of membrane proteins 

Coordinator: Locher K. 

Supramolecular 

assemblies/molecular 

interactions 

Coordinator: Ban N. 

Technologies 

Coordinator: Plückthun A. 

Projects 

Folding and function 

of supramolecular systems 

and membrane proteins 

H: Glockshuber R. 

Directed evolution of eukaryotic 

membrane proteins 

H: Plückthun A. 

X-ray crystallography of 

membrane proteins 

and the use of chaperones 

of crystallization 

H: Grütter M. 

Chromatin structure: 

Genome organization in 

three-dimensions 

H: Richmond T.J. 

Macromolecular assemblies 

involved in central cellular 

processes; mitochondrial 

protein synthesis 

and fatty acid synthesis 

H: Ban N. 

The structural basis for 

transmembrane ion transport 

H: Dutzler R. 

Structure and mechanism of 

multidrug transporters 

H: Locher K. 

Structure determination of 

protein-RNA complexes involved 

in alternative-splicing 

by NMR spectroscopy 

H: Allain F. 

Single molecule spectroscopy 

of cotranslational protein 

folding and membrane protein 

dynamics 

H: Schuler B. 

Computational 

biomolecular science 

H: van Gunsteren W.F. 

Associated Groups 

& Technology Platforms 

Cell-free expression and 

segmental stable isotope 

labelling of proteins 

and RNAs for NMR studies 

H: Allain F., Wüthrich K. 

High throughput expression lab 

H: Plückthun A. 

High throughput crystallization 

facility of the NCCR 

H: Grütter M. 

Programmes 

PhD program Biomolecular 

structure and mechanism 

Supervisor: Allain F. 

Annual practical course 

in structural biology 

Supervisor: Glockshuber R. 

Annual symposium on new 

trends in structural biology 

Supervisor: Glockshuber R. 

Web Address 

www.structuralbiology.uzh.ch 


• Homepage 

• Newspaper articles 

• Appearance on radio 

and national TV 


Topics 

Today, knowledge about 

biological processes is 

obtained from functional 

experiments on a limited 

number of biochemical 

systems, and from a rapidly 

increasing amount of 

DNA sequence information, 

generated in several 

genome projects. To bridge 

the widening gap between 

rapidly increasing information 

on genome sequences 

and limited know ledge 

on the function of gene 

products, a quantitative 

understanding of the 3Dstructure 

of proteins, their 

Heads of Individual Research Projects and Associated Groups 

Allain Frédéric, Prof. 

Ban Nenad, Prof. 

Dutzler Raimund, Prof. 


Grütter Markus, Prof. 

Locher Kaspar, Prof. 

Medalia Ohad, Prof. 

Plückthun Andreas, Prof. 

Richmond Timothy J., Prof. 

Schuler Ben, Prof. 

Schertler Gebhard, Prof. 

Stahlberg Henning, Prof. 

van Gunsteren Wilfred F., Prof. 

Weber-Ban Erika 

Wüthrich Kurt, Prof. 

folding, and their interactions 

with other molecules 

is required. Such 

understanding is the key 

to develop innovative medi 

cines, such as new antibiotics 

and vaccines, as 

well as drugs against 

cancer and diseases of 

the central nervous, immune, 

and cardiovascular 

systems. In this NCCR 

specialists in experimental 

struc tu re determination 

by X-ray crystallography, 

NMR spectroscopy 

and electron microscopy 

/ crystallo gra phy, in protein 

biophysical chemistry, 

modern molecular biology, 

and computational biology 

will meet the challenge to 

link the ever increasing biological 

data generated in the 

genomics field with related 

structural and functional 

information. This NCCR is 

currently in its third and 

final funding period until 

2013. The major assets resulting 

from this project 

will be secured longterm 

through the foundation of a 

center of structural biology 

head-quartered in Zürich. 

Institut für Molekularbiologie und Biophysik, ETH Zürich 


Institut für Biochemie, Universität Zürich 








Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI 

C-CINA, Biozentrum, Universität Basel 

Laboratorium für physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich 




Programmes 

• EDICT (FP7) 

• P-CUBE (FP7) 


• Biochemistry, Brandeis University, 

Waltham, US 

• Biozentrum, University of Basel, 

Basel, CH 

• Cancer Research (CSHL), Cold 

Spring Harbour Laboratories, US 

• Center for Cellular Imaging 

and Nanoanalytics, 

University of Basel, CH 

• Centre de Regulacio Genomica, 

Institució Catalana de Recerca i 

Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, ES 

• Department Biophysical 

Chemistry, Max-Planck-Institute 

for Intelligent Systems, 

Stuttgart, DE 

• Département de Microbiologie 

et d’Infectiologie, 

Université de Sherbrooke, CA 


New York University School of 

Medicine, New York, US 


University of Washington, 

Seattle, US 

• Department of Biological Sciences, 

University of Illinois, Chicago, US 

• Department of Biology, 

University of Science and 

Technology of China, Hefei, CN 

• Department of Biophysical 

Structural Chemistry, Leiden 

Institute of Chemistry, NL 

• Department of Chemistry and 

Molecular Biology, University of 

Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden 

• Department of Chemistry, 

Ludwig-Maximilian-University 

Munich, DE 



• Department of Chemistry, Wayne 

State University, Detroit, US 

• Department of Genetics, The 

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 

Jerusalem, IL 

• Department of Hematology, The 

Hebrew University of Jerusalem - 

Hadassah Medical Organization, 

Jerusalem, IL 


Biology and Biotechnology, 

University of Sheffield, GB 

• Department of Molecular Cell 

Biology, Weizmann Institute of 

Science, Rehovot, IL 


Biophysics and Biochemistry, 

Yale University, New Haven, US 


Medicine, Max Planck Institute of 

Biochemistry, Martinsried, DE 

• Department of Pharmacology, 

School of Medicine, Cleveland, US 

• Department of Physics, University 

of California, Santa Barbara, US 


University of North Carolina, 

Chapel Hill, US 


Molecular Life Sciences – 

Three Dimensional Structure, 


NCCR Structural Biology 

• Department of Physiology, 

University of Manitoba, 

Winnipeg, CA 

• Department of Plant 

Molecular Biology, University 

of Lausanne, CH 

• Division of Chemistry and 

Chemical Engineering, 

California Institute of Technology, 

Pasadena, US 

• Division of Molecular and Health 

Technologies, Commonwealth 

Scientific and Industrial Research 

Organisation, Melbourne, AU 

• Faculty of Sciences, Department 

of Organic Chemistry and 

Biochemistry, Zagreb, HR 

• Howard Hughes Medical 

Institute, University of California 

Los Angeles, US 

• Institut de Génétique et de 

Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire 

(IGBMC), Département de 

Neurobiologie et Génétique, 

Illkirch, FR 

• Institut für Biochemie und 

Medizinische Molekularbiologie, 

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität 

Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE 

• Institut für Biochemie, Justus- 

Liebig-Universität Giessen, DE 

• Institute for Molecular Bioscience, 

University of Queensland, 

Brisbane, AU 

• Institute of Biotechnology 

and Biomedicine, 


• Institute of Botany, Darmstadt 

University of Technology, DE 

• Institute of Membrane 

and Systems Biology, 

University of Leeds, GB 

• Institute of Microbiology, ETH 

Zurich, Zurich, CH 

• Institute of Molecular Modeling 

and Simulation, 

BOKU University, Vienna, AT 

• Institute of Molecular Biology 

and Biophysics, ETH Zurich, 

Zurich, CH 

• Institute of Molecular Pediatric 

Science, University of Chicago, US 

• Institute of Pharmacology, 

University College London, 

London, GB 

• Institute of Physical Chemistry, 

ETH Zurich, CH 

• Kyoto Institute of Technology, 

Protein Crystal Corporation, 

Osaka, JP 

• Lab. für Physikalische Chemie, 

ETH Zurich, Zurich, CH 

• Laboratoire de Maturation des 

ARN et Enzymologie Moléculaire, 

Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, FR 


Key biology areas 

This NCCR focuses on the 

structural biology of membrane 

proteins and supramolecular 

complexes and 

interactions. In both areas, 

major advances have been 

reported since the start of 

this NCCR. Methods for 

cloning, expression, purification, 

crystallization 

and analysis of membrane 

proteins have been developed 

and successes in their 

structure determination 

achieved. In the field of a 

class of medically relevant 

membrane proteins, ATP 

transporters, studies by 

different NCCR groups described 

the crystal structure 

of two different subclasses 

of these transporters. Insights 

into the structure of 

the vitamin B12 ABC transporter 

suggest a novel peristalsis-like 

mechanism of 

transport. The first structural 

insight into a class of 

secondary transporters was 

obtained by electron crystallography 

of the bacterial 

citrate transporter. In the 

theme of supramolecular 

complexes, detailed structural 

information on eukaryotic 

ribosomes, which 

are significantly larger and 

more complex than their 

prokaryotic counterparts, 

was obtained by determining 

the first complete 

crystal structures of both 

small and large eukaryotic 

ribosomal subunits each in 

complex with an initiation 

factor. Furthermore, the 

structures of enzymes involved 

in bacterial protein 

degradation by a pathway 

specific to actinobacteria 

were described. 

Important research fields 

in this area include the 

chromatin structure, the 

ribosome, RNA-protein 

interactions and fatty acid 

synthases. 

Technology platforms 

Shared infrastructure units 

for recombinant protein 

production, stable isotopelabelling 

of proteins and 

high-throughput crystallisation 

of proteins for NMR 

or X-ray studies have been 

established and are today 

a major tool for effective 

structure determination 

used by many research 

groups within or outside 

this NCCR. A successful 

collaboration with the 

SLS-synchrotron for highthroughput 

crystal analysis 

and protein structure determination 

complements 

these technology platforms. 


Project leaders of this 

NCCR have various individual 

collaborations with 

industry partners. An umbrella-type 

agreement for 

long-term collaboration 

between Novartis and the 

NCCR has been realized, 

so far leading to two 

collabo rations. 

The spin-off company 

Mole cular Partners resulted 

partly from the 

NCCR research project on 

‘ankyrin repeats’ which are 

an alternative to antibodies 

as selective binders. Another 

spin-off, REDbiotec, 

commercialises MultiBac, 

a novel expression tool for 

large eukaryotic multiprotein 

complexes. 

Education 

A post-graduate program 

in structural biology was 

established and embedded 

in the Life Science Zurich 

Graduate School. Thanks 

to the synergies within this 

NCCR, a very broad and 

in-depth edu cation of students 

in structural biology 

became possible. 

This NCCR established a 

series of well-recognized 

structural biology events, 

namely a yearly symposium 

and practical courses 

that are well attended 

by scientists from within 

the NCCR and from other 

research institutes. 

Structural Effects 

This NCCR offers an excellent 

opportunity for interdisciplinary 

and highstandard 

structural biology 

research in Switzerland 

which allowed to attract 

several outstanding young 

scientists to Switzerland. 


www.structuralbiology.uzh.ch 




SNSF funding 3 600 000 2 000 000 1 500 000 800 000 7 900 000 21 


institution 1 1 226 033 1 851 950 1 315 865 1 495 865 5 889 713 16 

Self-funding from ETH 

Zurich 

577 679 730 227 703 600 703 600 2 715 106 7 


participants 

6 537 153 6 663 000 6 277 035 703 600 20 180 788 55 

Third-party funding 2 10 552 6 323 47 405 18 100 82 380 0 

Total 11 951 417 11 251 500 9 843 905 3 721 165 36 767 987 100 

Personnel 3 

1 


2 

Not included is CTI funding. Since the start of the NCCR 2 projects have been funded by CTI at a total amount 


3 


4 



5 


6 



7 


8 






Eisenberg David, Prof. 

Fromm Katharina, Prof. 

Hall Mike, Prof. 

Michel Hartmut, Prof. 

Schmid Franz Xaver, Prof. 

Widmer Hans, Dr. 

Wright Ernest M., Prof. 

Wright Peter E., Prof. 



Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

DE FR CN PL AT 

Management 3.0 4 2 25 6 75 3 2 1 0 0 0 2 






Other staff 21 19 90 2 10 12 3 1 0 2 0 4 

Total 143.00 56 38 92 62 49 43 9 5 6 4 34 


Totals 






UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, US 



Max-Planck Institut für Biophysik, Frankfurt am Main, DE 

Laboratorium für Biochemie, Universität Bayreuth, DE 

Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, CH 

UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, US 

Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research 

Institute, La Jolla, US 



• Laboratoire d’Enzymologie et 

Biochimie Structurales, Centre 

national de la Recherche 

Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, FR 

• Lab. für Physikalische Chemie, 


• Laboratory of Molecular Biology, 

National Institutes of Health, 

Bethesda, US 

• Laboratory of Protein 

Phosphorylation, Katholieke 

Universiteit Leuven, BE 

• M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 

University of Texas, Houston, US 

• Max Planck Institute of Coal 

Research, Mühlheim, DE 

• Max von Pettenkofer Institute, 

Ludwig-Maximilians 

University of Munich, DE 

• Medizinische Biochemie und 

Molekularbiologie der Universität 

des Saarlands, Homburg, DE 

• National Chemical Laboratory 

(NCL), Central NMR Facility, 

Pune, IN 

• National Institute of 

Biotechnology, Madrid, ES 

• Russian Academy of Sciences, 

Moscow, RU 

• San Diego Joint Center for 

Structural Genomics, US 

• School of Biological Sciences, 

University of Auckland, NZ 

• School of Chemistry and 

Molecular Bioscience, 

The University of Queensland, 

Brisbane, AU 

• School of Medicine, Stanford 

University, Stanford, CA, US 

• Structural Biology – VUB, 

Free University of Brussels, BE 

• The Scripps Research Institute, 

La Jolla, US 

• UCL Cancer Institute, 

University College London, GB 

• Zentrum für Molekulare 

Biologie (ZMBH), 

Universität Heidelberg, DE 


• Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma 

GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach, DE 

• Bruker AXS GmbH, 

Karlsruhe, DE 

• Cambridge Antibody Technology, 

Cambridge, GB 

• F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., 

Basel, CH 

• Molecular Dimensions Limited, 

Newmarket, GB 

• Molecular Partners AG, 

Zurich, CH 

• MorphoSys AG, Martinsried, DE 

• Roche Deutschland Holding 

GmbH, Penzberg, DE 

• Swissci AG, Neuheim, CH 


Neural Plasticity and Repair 

NCCR Neuro 




June 1, 2001 


Director 

Schwab Martin E., Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)44 635 33 31 

schwab@hifo.uzh.ch 

Deputy Directors 

Möhler Hanns, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)44 635 59 10 

mohler@pharma.uzh.ch 

Nitsch Roger M., Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)44 634 88 71 

nitsch@bli.uzh.ch 

Knecht Wolfgang, Dr. 

phone: + 41 (0)44 635 33 81 

wknecht@neuroscience.uzh.ch 

Coordinator 

Vranesic Tamara, Ms. 

phone: + 41 (0)44 635 33 84 

vranesic@neuroscience.uzh.ch 

Communication 

Vranesic Tamara, Ms. 


Knowledge and 


Colombo Gery, Dr. 




Mansuy Isabelle, Prof. 

Research 

Alzheimer’s disease 

H: Nitsch R. 

Caflisch A., Fraering P., 

Glockshuber R., Hock C., 

Knüsel I., Konietzko U., 

Rajendran L., Sonderegger P. 

Acute-phase predictors 

and modulators for long-term 

outcome after stroke 

H: Luft A. 

Rouiller E., Schwab M. 

Immunotherapy 

for malignant glioma 

H: Weller M. 

Aguzzi A., Frei K., Tabatabai G. 

Cortical plasticity 

H: Stephan K.E. , Ishai A. 

Infection and immunity 

of the central nervous system 

H: Fontana A. 

Aguzzi A., Becher B., Martin R., 

Suter T. 

Spinal cord repair 

H: Schwab M., Curt A., 

Raineteau O. 

Transfer projects 

(strong Swiss franc package) 

Development of a Mobile 

Device for Unsupervised, 

High-Dosage Inpatient and 

Outpatient Lower Limb Rehabilitation 

H: Bolliger M. 

Recombinant Human Monoclonal 

Antibodies for the 

treatment of Amyotrophic Lateral 

Sclerosis 

H: Nitsch R. 

Somnomat: an Actuated Bed 

to Improve Sleep Quality 

H: Riener R. 

Technological Platforms, 

Programmes 

Center of transgenesis 

expertise 

H: Mansuy I. 

Aguzzi A., Becher B., 

Jessberger S., Suter U. 

Center for proteomics 

H: Wollscheid B. 

Center for animal imaging 

H: Rudin M. 

Ewers H., Helmchen F. 

International Ph. D. Program 

in Neuroscience 

Administered by the 

Neuroscience Center Zurich 

Coordinator: Knecht W. 

Address 

NCCR Neural Plasticity 

and Repair 


8057 Zürich 

vranesic@neuroscience.uzh.ch 

Rehabilitation 

technology matrix 

H: Riener R. 

Gassert R. 

Web Address 

www.nccr-neuro.uzh.ch 


• Neurotransmitter Newsletter 

• BrainFair Zürich 


Topics 

At present only limited help 

is available to patients suffering 

from diseases of the 

central nervous system. 

The fundamental goal of 

the NCCR “Neural Plasticity 

and Repair” is to gain 

better insight into the 

mechanisms and causes 

of these diseases in order 

Heads of Individual Research Projects and Subprojects 

Aguzzi Adriano, Prof. 

Becher Burkhard, Prof. 

Caflisch Amedeo, Prof. 

Curt Armin, Prof. 

Ewers Helge, Dr. 

Fontana Adriano, Prof. 

Fraering Patrick, Prof. 

Frei Karl, Prof. 

Gassert Roger, Prof. 


Helmchen Fritjof, Prof. 

Hock Christoph, Prof. 

Ishai Alumit, Prof. 

Jessberger Sebastian, Prof. 

Knüsel Irene, PD Dr. 

Konietzko Uwe, Dr. 

Luft Andreas, Prof. 


Martin Roland, Prof. 

Nitsch Roger M., Prof. 

Raineteau Olivier, Dr. 

Rajendran Lawrence, Prof. 

Riener Robert, Prof. 

Rouiller Eric, Prof. 

to design improved therapies 

for the future. The 

NCCR investigates in its 

final Phase 3 (2009-2013) 

molecular, cellular and 

system level mechanisms 

of plasticity, regeneration 

and functional repair of the 

damaged nervous tissue 

focusing on Alzheimer’s 

disease, multiple sclerosis, 

stroke, glioma and spinal 

cord injury. The key approach 

of this NCCR is to 

promote synergies between 

experimental and clinical 

research in conjunction 

with engineering, neuroinformatics 

and modern brain 

imaging technologies. 

Institut für Neuropathologie, Universitätsspital Zürich 

Institut für Experimentelle Immunologie, Universität Zürich 

Biochemisches Institut, Universität Zürich 

Paraplegikerzentrum, Universitätsklinik Balgrist, Zürich 

Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich 

Klinische Immunologie, Universitätsspital Zürich 

Brain Mind Institute, EPF Lausanne 

Neurochirurgische Klinik, Universitätsspital Zürich 

Institut für Robotik und Intelligente Systeme, ETH Zürich 


Hönggerberg 

Institut für Hirnforschung, Universität Zürich 

Abteilung für Psychiatrische Forschung, Universität Zürich 

Institut für Neuroradiologie, Universitätsspital Zürich 


Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Universität Zürich 


Neurologische Klinik, Universitätsspital Zürich 







Institut de Physiologie, Université de Fribourg 


Programme 

• ARISE 

• CHIRP1 

• EUROSPIN 

• INTERACTION 

• MUNDUS 

• Neurochoice (SystemsX) 

• NEUWalk 

• REWIRE 

• WALK AGAIN 


• Albert Einstein College of 

Medicine, Yeshiva University, 

New York, US 

• Alexander Silberman Institute 

of Life Sciences, 

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, IL 

• Biochemistry Center Regensburg 

(BZR), University of Regensburg, 

Regensburg, DE 

• Biotech Research and Innovation 

Centre (BRIC), 

University of Copenhagen, DK 

• Cambridge Centre for Brain 

Repair, School of Clinical 

Medicine, GB 

• Center for Neural Science, 

Korea Institute of Science and 

Technology, Seoul, KR 

• Cortical Networks, Max Planck 

Institute for Neurological 

Research, Köln, DE 

• Departement Immunologie, 

Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Langen, DE 

• Department Neuroscience, 

San Raffaele Scientific Institute, 

Milano, IT 

• Department of Anatomy and 

Developmental Biology, 


• Department of Anatomy and 

Neurobiology, Chandler Medical 

Center, Lexington, US 

• Department of Anatomy 

and Neurobiology, University 

of California, Irvine, US 

• Department of Anatomy, 

University of Witwatersrand, 

Johannesburg, ZA 

• Department of Biology, 

University of Konstanz, DE 

• Department of Cell Biology and 

Neurosciences, Istituto 

Superiori e di Sanità, Rome, IT 

• Department of Cell Physiology 

and Pharmacology, 

University of Leicester, GB 

• Department of Chronobiology, 

Univ. of Groningen, Haren, NL 



• Department of Developmental 

Biology and Cancer Research, 

The Hebrew University, 

Jerusalem, IL 

• Department of Experimental 

Oncology, European Institute of 

Oncology, Milano, IT 

• Department Genes and Behavior, 

Max Planck Institute of 

Biophysical Chemistry, 

Göttingen, DE 

• Department of Human Anatomy 

and Histology, University of Bari 

School of Medicine, Bari, IT 

• Department of Human Genetics, 

Leiden Univ. Medical Center, NL 


• Department of Infectious 

Diseases, St. Jude Children’s 

Research Hospital, Memphis, US 

• Dep. of Medical Biochemistry and 

Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, 

Stockholm, SE 

• Department of Medical 

Pharmacology, 

University of Milan, IT 

• Department of Molecular Cell 

Biology, Katholieke Universiteit 

Leuven, NL 

• Department of Neurobiology 

and Physiology, Northwestern 

University, Evanston, US 

• Department of Neurobiology, 

State University of New York, 

Stony Brook, US 

• Department of Neurology, Johns 

Hopkins University, Baltimore, US 

• Department of Neurology, 

Medical University of South 

Carolina, Charleston, US 

• Department of Neurology, The 

University of Texas Medical 

Branch at Galveston, US 


Heinrich-Heine-University, 

Düsseldorf, DE 


University of Marburg, DE 

• Department of Neuroscience, 

San Raffaele Scientific 

Institute - DIBIT, Milano, IT 

• Department of Neurosurgery, 

Stanford University, US 

• Department of Neurosurgery, 

University Hospital Hamburg, DE 

• Department of Pathology, 

School of Medicine, San Diego, US 

• Department of Pathology, Harvard 

Medical School, Boston, US 

• Department of Pharmacology 

and Cancer Biology, Duke 

University Medical Center, 

Durham, US 

• Department of Pharmacy, 

University of Patras, GR 


Anatomy and Genetics, 

Oxford, GB 

• Department of Physiological 

Sciences, University of California, 



Anatomy and Genetics, 

Oxford, GB 

• Department of Physiology and 

Neurobiology, Eötvös Loránd 

University, Budapest, HU 

• Department of Psychiatry, 

University of California, US 

• Dep. of Psychological and Brain 

Sciences, Neurogenetics and 

Behavior Center, Baltimore, US 

• Dep. of Psychology, Katholieke 

Universiteit Leuven, BE 

• Department of Surgery, University 

of Toronto, Toronto, CA 

• Department of Veterans Affairs, 

Maryland Health Care System, 

Baltimore VA Medical Center, US 

• Department of Zoology, 

University of British Columbia, 

Vancouver, CA 

• DFG-Forschungszentrum für 

Regen. Therapie, Dresden, DE 

• Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, 

Sezione di Fisiologia, Torino, IT 

• Division of Clinical Neuroscience, 

University of Glasgow, GB 

• Division of Mental Health 

Research, Queensland Institute of 

Medical Research, Herston, AU 

• Experimental Therapy, Franz 

Penzoldt Center, Erlangen, DE 

• Faculty for Biomedical 

Engineering, The Catholic University 

of America, Washington, US 

• I. P. Pavlov Institute of 

Physiology, Russian Academy of 

Sciences, St. Petersburg, RU 



Rudin Markus, Prof. 

Schwab Martin E., Prof. 

Sonderegger Peter, Prof. 

Stephan Klaas Enno, Prof. 

Suter Tobias, Dr. 

Tabatabai Ghazaleh, Dr. 

Weller Michael, Prof. 

Delegates 

Colombo Gery, Dr. 



Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Universität 

und ETH Zürich und Institut für Biomedizinische Technik, 

Universität und ETH Zürich 

Institut für Hirnforschung, Universität Zürich und 

D- HEST, ETH Zürich 


Institut für Biomedizinische Technik, Universität und ETH Zürich 

Klinische Immunologie, Universitätsspital Zürich 



Hocoma AG, Volketswil 


Zentrum für Neurowissenschaften Zürich, Universität 

und ETH Zürich 



The power of neuroscience 

has been brought to 

bear on the understanding 

of the diseases of the 

brain and spinal cord and 

the possibility of restoring 

neural functions. The 

NCCR Neuro has achieved 

major milestones in translating 

basic neuroscience 

into therapy since its 

beginning in 2001. The 

colla boration between 


neuroscience has been 

further strengthened and 

extended to include neuroinforma 

tics, brain imaging 

and engineering sciences. 

Therapeutic advances 

Immunotherapy has 

reach ed the clinical stage in 

the treatment of spinal cord 

injury and NCCR groups 

are participating in the first 

clinical trials. Similarly, 

the stage is set for clinical 

trials of immunotherapy 

for Alzheimer‘s disease. 

Devices from rehabilitation 

engineering are in clinical 

and commercial use. 

Basic science 

Basic neuroscience has 

been strongly promoted in 

new avenues of stem cell 

research, neural differentiation, 

neurooncology 

and neuroimmunology as 

well as in the process of 

rehabilitation of the injured 

CNS. 

Awards 

The achievements of the 

NCCR were recognized by 

a large number of internationally 

and nationally 

prestigious prices awarded 

to members of the NCCR 

Neuro. 

New professorships 

To advance the NCCR, ten 

new professorships have 

been created since the beginning: 

one each in clinical 

and experimental analysis 

of multiple sclerosis (MS), 

two in rehabilitation engineering, 

one in animal 

brain imaging, one in stem 

cell biology, one each in 


neurorehabilitation, one 

in systems biology of Alzheimer‘s 

disease and one 

in clinical neuroimmunology 

and MS research. 

Central facilities 

A core structure provides 

methodological support for 

the diverse projects of the 

NCCR. This facility consists 

of four integrative units: 

The center of transgenesis 

expertise, the center 

of behavioral assessment 

(closed), the center dedicated 

to animal imaging 

and a center on systems 

proteomics. 

Education 

The Neuroscience Center 

Zurich (ZNZ) offers the International 

Ph.D. Program 

in Neuroscience. About 

70 Ph.D. students of the 

NCCR Neuro are currently 

enrolled in this program. 

Knowledge transfer 

Major efforts have been 

made to extend joint 

projects with major pharma 

companies. In addition, 

three spin-off companies 

arose from the NCCR and 

provide new positions for 

young scientists. From 

2009-2011, two applied 

projects have been carried 

out within the economic 

stimulus package (ALS and 

Robot-Assisted Neurorehabilitation 

of the Arm). 

Sixty-one patents have 

been issued since 2001. 

Dialogue with society 

The dialogue between the 

NCCR and society at large 

is an important aspect. 

Regular press contacts are 

organized. The BrainFair 

Zürich attracts thousands 

of visitors each year. An 

informative and balanced 

communication with the 

public is essential for our 

work. 

Outlook 

Based on the past achievements, 

the NCCR will 

continue to promote basic 

science, provide new 

insights into disease 

mechanisms and advance 

therapies for injuries and 

disorders of the CNS. 


www.nccr-neuro.uzh.ch 

• Institut de Génomique 

Fonctionnelle, Montpellier, FR 

• Institut des Systèmes Intelligents 

et de Robotique, Université Pierre 

et Marie Curie, Paris, FR 

• Institut für Allgemeine Zoologie 

und Genetik, Westfälische 

Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE 

• Institut für Klinische Chemie 

und Pharmakologie, 

Universitätsklinikum Bonn, DE 

• Institut für Klinische 

Neuroimmunologie, Klinikum 

der Universität München, DE 

• Institut für Molekulare 

Regenerative Medizin, Paracelsus 

Medizinische Privatuniversität, 

Salzburg, AT 

• Institut für Virologie und 

Immunbiologie, 

Universität Würzburg, DE 

• Institute for Pharmacy and 

Molecular Biotechnology, 

University of Heidelberg, DE 

• Institute für Immunologie, 

Friedrich-Löffler Institut, 

Tübingen, DE 

• Institute of Basic Medical 

Sciences, Department of 

Physiology, University of Oslo, NO 

• Institute of Biochemistry, 

Goethe University, Frankfurt, DE 

• Institute of Biomaterials and 

Biomedical Engineering, 


• Institute of Cell Biology, 

Department of Immunology, 

Tübingen, DE 

• Institute of Developmental 

Genetics, Helmholtz-Zentrum 

München, DE 

• Institute of Experimental 

Medicine, Hungarian Academy 

of Sciences, Budapest, HU 

• Institute of Experimental 

Pathology, Univ. of Münster, DE 

• Institute of Medical Biology, 

Medical Biotechnology Centre, 

Odense, DK 

• Institute of Virology, Technische 

Universität München (TUM)/ 

Helmholtz-Zentrum, DE 

• Interfaculty Institute for Cell 

Biology, Univ. of Tübingen, DE 

• Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach- 

Institute of Zoology and 

Anthropology, University of 

Göttingen, Göttingen, DE 

• Klinik für Neurologie, 

Universitätsklinikum Essen, DE 

• Laboratoire de Neurobiologie de 

l’Apprentissage, de la Mémoire et 

de la Communication, Orsay, FR 

• Laboratory of Genetics, The Salk 

Institute for Biological Studies, US 

• Laboratory of Molecular Biology, 

Nencki Institute of Experimental 

Biology, Warsaw, PL 

• Laboratory of Preclinical Imaging 

and Imaging Technology, 

University Hospital Tübingen, 

Tübingen, DE 

• Leibniz Institute for Age Research, 

Fritz Lipmann Institute, DE 

• Max Planck International 

Research Network on Aging, 

Rostock, DE 

• MRC Laboratory for Molecular 

Cell Biology, University College 

London, GB 

• Neurological Clinic, 

University of Tübingen, DE 

• Neurologische Klinik, Technische 

Universität München, DE 

• Neuro-Psychiatry, Institut de 

Recherches Internationales 

Servier, Cedex, FR 

• Neurorehabilitation, Kliniken 

Schmieder Allensbach, DE 

• Neuroscience Center, 

University of Helsinki, FI 

• Neurosciences Group, 

Weatherall Institute of 

Molecular Medicine, Oxford, GB 




• NeuroStructural Research 

Laboratory, Tampa, US 

• Newcastle upon Tyne Muscle 

Centre, Institute of Human 

Genetics, GB 

• Pathologisches Institut, 

Abteilung für Neuropathologie, 

Universitätsklinik Freiburg, DE 

• Physiology, Development and 

Neuroscience, University of 

Cambridge, Cambridge, GB 

• Queensland Brain Institute, 

University of Queensland, AU 

• Rehabilitation Inst. of Chicago, US 

• Rehabilitationszentrum für Kinder 

und Jugendliche des Kinderspitals 

Zürich, Kinderspital Zürich, 

Affoltern am Albis, CH 

• School of Biosciences, 

University of Birmingham, GB 

• School of Medical Sciences, 

University of Aberdeen, GB 

• Unité de neuroscience, Université 

Laval, Québec, CA 

• University Hospital 

of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, 

University of Würzburg, DE 

• Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, 

Department of Experimental 

Medical Sciences, Lund Univ. SE 

• Wellcome Trust Centre for 

Neuroimaging, London, GB 


• Alcon Laboratories Inc., 

Fort Worth, US 

• Alea Solutions GmbH, Zurich, CH 

• Antisense Pharma GmbH, 

Regensburg, DE 

• Biogen Idec Ltd, Maidenhead, GB 

• Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharma 

GmbH & Co., Biberach, DE 

• Bruker Biospin AG, Fällanden, CH 

• Compex Medical SA, Ecublens, CH 

• ESBATech AG, Schlieren, CH 

• Evotec Neurosciences AG, 

Hamburg, DE 

• FBI Science GmbH, 

Technologiezentrum-Ruhr an der 

Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, DE 

• GlaxoSmithKline AG, Verona, IT 

• Hocoma AG, Volketswil, CH 

• Neurimmune Therapeutics AG, 

Zurich, CH 

• NewBehavior AG, Zürich, CH 

• Pathologie Institut Enge, 

Zurich, CH 

• Philips Medical Systems AG, 

Zurich, CH 

• Sanofi-Aventis, Paris, FR 

• Swortec SA, Monthey, CH 

• TSE Systems GmbH, Bad 

Homburg, DE 

• Warren Pharmaceuticals Inc., 

Ossining, US 

• Zühlke Engineering AG, 

Schlieren, CH 

• 4SC AG, Munich, DE 

Others 

• Consortium of the Christopher 

and Dana Reeve Foundation, 


• ETH Foundation, Zurich, CH 

• International Spinal Research 

Trust (ISRT), Surrey, GB 

• Velux Stiftung, Zürich, CH 

• Wilhelm-Sander Foundation, 

Munich, DE 



SNSF funding 1 4 115 000 3 075 000 1 600 000 2 780 000 11 570 000 13 


institution 2 1 700 621 1 737 641 997 280 1 520 000 5 955 542 7 

Self-funding from ETH 

Zurich 

937 500 937 500 937 500 937 500 3 750 000 4 


participants 

13 659 469 17 617 835 14 445 819 16 007 661 61 730 784 69 


Total 21 086 829 24 195 876 20 208 839 23 400 161 88 891 705 100 

Personnel 4 

1 

Included funding of economic stimulus package and transfer projects (strong Swiss franc package) 

2 


3 



4 


5 



6 


7 



8 


9 





Dehio Christoph, Prof. (Chair) 

Bonhoeffer Tobias, Prof. 

Compston Alastair, Prof. 

Ghisalba Oreste, Prof. 

Götz Magdalena, Prof. 

Herrling Paul, Dr. 

Lindvall Olle, Prof. 

Thier Hans-Peter, Prof. 

Wiestler Otmar, Prof. 


Bachmann Stefan, Dr. 

Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

DE IT FR IN US 

Management 2.0 5 4 44 5 56 5 3 0 1 0 0 0 






Other staff 65 43 66 22 34 42 13 0 0 0 2 8 

Total 388.00 172 44 223 56 182 102 14 13 12 9 65 


Totals 






Max-Planck Institut für Neurobiologie, München-Martinsried, DE 

Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, GB 


Institute of Stem Cell Research GSF, National Research Center 

for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, DE 

Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, CH 

Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, University Hospital of Lund, SE 

Abt. Kognitive Neurologie, Hertie-Institut für klinische 

Hirnforschung, Tübingen, DE 

Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, DE 

Schweiz. Nationalfonds, Wildhainweg 3, 3001 Bern, 

phone: + 41 (0)31 308 23 49, fax: + 41 (0)31 305 29 71, 

sbachmann@snf.ch 


Kidney Control of Homeostasis 

NCCR Kidney.CH 



Start of NCCR 

August 1, 2010 

Research 

Modul 1 

Oxygen 

Leader: Wenger R. 

Basic mechanism 

of renal oxygen sensing 

H: Wenger R. 

Moch H., Frew I. 

Oxygen sensing in kidney 

development and disease 

H: Cohen C., 

Hoogewijs D., Moch H., 

Huynh-Do U. 

Modul 2 

Nutrients & Metabolism 

Leader: Verrey F. 

Control of nutrient and drug 

bioavailability by the kidney 

H: Verrey F., 

Odermatt A., Kullak-Ublick G.A., 

Serra A. 

Regulation of energy 

metabolism by the kidney 

H: Montani J.P., 

Konrad D., Odermatt A. 

Module 3 

Acid & Minerals 

Leader: Wagner C. 

Sensors of phosphate by 

kidney, bone, and intestine 

H: Biber J., 

Krapf R., Seuwen K., 

Wagner C., De Seigneux S. 

Stones and bones: 

Renal acid and mineral 

excretion and its crosstalk 

with bone 

H: Wagner C., 

Fuster D.G., Bonny O., Pasch A. 

The role of Uromodulin 

and the TAL in mineral, salt 

and uric acid handling 

H: Devuyst O., 

Bonny O. 

Module 4 

Salt & Water 

Leader: Féraille E., 

Ernandez T. 

Renal mechanisms 

of oedema formation 

H: Vogt B., 

Hummler E., Martin P.Y., 

Burnier M. 

Trophic effects of sodium 

on the kidney and 

cardiovascular system 

H: Féraille E., 

Ernandez T. 

Integrative control of 

potassium homeostasis 

H: Loffing J., 

Staub O., Forssmann W.G. 

Technology Platforms 

& Reference Centres 

Imaging & Microscopy 

H: Loffing J. 

Rodent Transgenesis 

H: Hummler E. 

Rodent Phenotyping 

H: Wagner C. 

Human Studies 

H: Krapf R. 

Programmes 

International Fellowship 

Program on Integrative Kidney 

Physiology and Pathophysiology 

(IKPP) 

H: Huynh-Do U. 

E-Learning Cours in Basics in 

Nephrology 

H: Rossier B. 


Director 

Verrey François, Prof. 

phone: +41 (0) 44 635 50 44 

verrey@access.uzh.ch 


Loffing Johannes, Prof. 

phone: +41 (0) 44 635 53 20 

johannes.loffing@anatom.uzh.ch 

Scientific Project Manager 

Meier Matthias 

phone: +41 (0) 44 635 59 68 

matthias.meier@nccr-kidney.ch 

Management Assistant 

Thomas Katharina 

phone: +41 (0) 44 635 52 16 

katharina.thomas@nccr-kidney.ch 

Communication 


Verrey François, Prof. 

Knowledge & Technology 

Transfer 


Education & Training 

Uyen Huynh-Do, Prof. 

phone: +41 (0) 31 632 31 41 

uyen.huynh-do@insel.ch 

Johannes Loffing, Prof. 


Uyen Huynh-Do, Prof. 

Johannes Loffing, Prof. 

Address 


Biber Jürg, PhD 

Physiologisches Institut, Universität Zürich 

Bonny Olivier, MD, PhD 

Département de pharmacologie et de toxicologie, Université Lausanne 

Burnier Michel, MD 

Faculté de biologie et médecine, Néphrologie, Université de Lausanne 

Cohen Clemens, MD 


Devuyst Olivier, MD, PhD Physiologisches Institut, Universität Zürich 

De Seigneux Sophie, MD 

Departement Physiologie cellulaire et métabolisme, 


Ernandez Thomas, MD 



Féraille Eric, MD, PhD 



Forssmann Wolf-Georg, MD Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover 

Frew Ian, PhD 


Fuster Daniel, MD, PhD 

Departement Nephrologie / Hypertonie, Universitätsspital Bern 

Hasler Udo, PhD 

Service de Néphrologie, Université de Genève 

Hoogewijs David, PhD 


Hummler Edith, PhD 

Département de Pharmacologie et Toxicologie, 

Université de Lausanne 

Huynh-Do Uyen, MD 


Konrad Daniel, MD 

Departement Endokrinologie und Diabetologie, Kinderspital Zürich 

Krapf Reto, MD 

Medizinsche Universitätsklinik, Kantonsspital Bruderholz, Basel 

Pasch Andreas, MD 


Vogt Bruno, MD 


NCCR-Kidney.CH 


Institute of Physiology 


8057 Zurich / Switzerland 

phone: +41 (0) 44 635 52 16 

fax: +41 (0) 44 635 68 14 

info@nccr-kidney.ch 

Web Address 

www.nccr-kidney.ch 


Kidney Control of Homeostasis 

NCCR Kidney.CH 


Programmes 

• IKPP 


• Department of Physiology 

and Pharmacology, 

University of Salamanca, ES 

• Dept. of Physiology, 


• Division of Osteoporosis, 

Unversity of Berne, CH 

• ETH Zurich, CH 

• Human Genetics Unit, Medical 

Research Council, Edinburgh, GB 

• Institute of molecular bioscience, 

University of Tokyo, JP 

• Institute of Physiology, 

Universität Tuebingen, DE 

• Institute of Veterinary Physiology, 

University of Zurich, CH 

• Internal Medicine, National 

Center of Integrative Biomedical 

Informatics, Ann Arbor, US 

• Internal medicine, CHUV - Centre 

Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, 

Lausanne, CH 

• Mineral metabolism clinic, 

Ut Southwestern Medical Centre, 

Dallas, TX, US 

• NHLBI, Framingham Hear 

Study, US 

• Oncology - Medical Imaging, 

University Hospital Zurich, CH 


• Insphero AG, Zurich, CH 

• Novartis, Basel, CH 

Kullak-Ublick Gerd A., MD 

Loffing Johannes, MD 

Martin Pierre-Yves, MD 

Moch Holger, MD 

Montani Jean-Pierre, MD 

Odermatt Alex, PhD 

Seuwen Klaus, PhD 

Staub Olivier, PhD 

Verrey François, MD 

Wagner Carsten, MD 

Wenger Roland, PhD 

Topics 

Keeping the inner body environment 

in a homeostatic 

balance is essential for 

proper body function and 

thus for healthy life. The 

National Centre of Competence 

in Research (NCCR) 

“Kidney.CH - Kidney Control 

of Homeostasis” investigates 

the central role that 

kidneys play in controlling 

this vital equilibrium. It integrates 

leading Swiss specialist 

in experimental and 

clinical nephrology from all 

Swiss Medical Universities 

and some major hospitals. 

Chronic Kidney Disease 

(CKD) has increased dramatically 

in recent years 

leading worldwide to an 

estimated 850 000 deaths 

every year. Patients with 

CKD are further at high risk 

for other diseases such as 

hypertension, atherosclerosis 

and ostoeporosis to 

name just a few. The goal 

of Kidney.CH is to advance 

knowledge in order to provide 

a scientific basis for 

the potential development 

of novel preventive, diagnostic 

and therapeutic approaches. 

Institut für Klinische Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, 

Universitätsspital Zürich 

Anatomisches Institut, Universität Zürich 

Department de Néphrologie, HUG-Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève 

Institut für Klinische Pathologie, Universitätsspital Zürich 

Département de Médecine / Physiologie, Université de Fribourg 

Pharmazentrum, Universität Basel 

Institute for Biomedical Research, Novartis 

Département de Pharmacologie et Toxicologie, Université de Lausanne 




Scientific Advisors 

Murer Heini, Prof. (Emeritus) 

Rossier Bernard, Prof. (Emeritus) 

Sigrist Adrian 

Universität Zürich, CH 

Université de Lausanne, CH 

Universität Zürich, Universität Bern und Basel, CH 




SNSF funding 3 135 000 4 465 000 4 465 000 4 465 000 16 530 000 62 


institution 1 70 831 140 140 1 960 000 1 160 000 3 330 971 12 


participants 

1 122 625 1 275 903 2 230 500 2 230 500 6 859 528 26 

Third-party funding 2 146 955 0 0 0 146 955 1 

Total 4 475 411 5 881 043 8 655 500 7 855 500 26 867 454 100 

Personnel 3 

Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

DE FR IN BE CN 

Management 4.1 4 5 50 5 50 4 3 1 1 0 0 1 






Other staff 11 7 64 4 36 9 0 2 0 0 0 0 

Total 86.09 34 37 58 63 42 17 9 5 2 2 16 

1 


2 

Not included is CTI funding. Since the start of the NCCR 1 project has been funded by CTI at a total amount 

of 200 000.00 CHF (cf. third table). 

3 


4 


5 




Steiger Jürg, Prof. (Chair) 

Alpern Robert, Prof. 

Daniel Hannelore, Prof. 

Eckardt Kai Uwe, Prof. 

Hottiger Michael O., Prof. 

Kurtz Armin, Prof. 

McDonough Alicia, Prof. 

Moe Orson W., Prof. 

Pearce David, Prof. 

Seckl Jonathan, Prof. 

Stoffel Markus, Prof. 


Griessen Thomas 


Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, US 

ZIEL- Abteilung Biochemie, Technische Universität München, DE 

Nephrologie und Hypertensiologie, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, DE 


Institut für Physiologie, Universität Regensburg, DE 

Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, US 

Medical Center at Dallas, University of Texas Southwestern, US 

Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, US 

Center Cardiovascular Science, The Queens Medical Research 

Institute, Edinburgh, UK 


Schweiz. Nationalfonds,Wildhainweg 3, 3001 Bern, 

phone: + 41 (0)31 308 23 51, fax: + 41 (0)31 305 29 71, 

tgriessen@snf.ch 


The synaptic bases of mental diseases 

NCCR SYNAPSY 

Home Institutions 

EPF Lausanne, 




October 1, 2010 


Director (EPFL, UNIL CHUV) 

Magistretti Pierre, Prof. 

Phone: +41 (0) 21 693 95 02 

pierre.magistretti@epfl.ch 

Co-Director (Uni GE) 

Muller Dominique, Prof. 

Phone: +41 (0) 22 379 54 34 

dominique.muller@unige.ch 

Manager 

Roth Béatrice, Dr. 

Phone: +41 (0)21 693 72 44 

beatrice.roth@epfl.ch 

Co-Manager 

Grenningloh Gabriele, Dr. 

Phone: +41 (0) 21 693 96 08 

gabriele.grenningloh@epfl.ch 

Assistant manager 

Lay Dumont Sandrine, Mrs. 

Phone: +41 (0) 21 693 03 32 

sandrine.laydumont@epfl.ch 


Transfer 

Sylvain Lengacher, Dr. 

Phone: +41 (0) 21 693 16 64 

sylvain.lengacher@epfl.ch 

Education 

Roth Béatrice, Dr. 

beatrice.roth@epfl.ch 


Moser Farnaz, Dr. 

Phone: +41 (0)21 693 19 81 

Farnaz.moser@epfl.ch 

Accountant 

Patricia Marti, Mrs. 

Phone: +41 (0) 21 693 61 62 

patricia.marti@epfl.ch 

Address 

NCCR-SYNAPSY 

EPFL/SV/BMI 

Station 19 

1015 Lausanne 

Phone : +41 (0) 21 693 03 32 

Fax : +41 (0) 21 693 18 97 

synapsy@epfl.ch 

Web Address 

www.nccr-synapsy.ch 

Axis 1: gene-mediated 

developmental psychiatric 

disorders 

Morpho-functional defects 

in 22q11 DS 

H: Eliez S., Michel C., Blanke O. 

Genome sequencing in 22q11 

and schizophrenic patients 

H: Antonarakis S. 

Development and function 

of excitatory and inhibitory 

networks in a 22q11 mouse 

model 

H: Caroni P., Muller D., 

Carleton A. 

Astrocyte function in the 

22q11 mouse model 

H: Bezzi P. 

Oxidative stress hypothesis 

and biomarkers of 

first episode psychosis 

H: Conus P., Do K., Murray N., 

Clarke S., Gruetter R. 

Synaptic defects in 

mouse models of autism 

H: Scheiffele P., 

Schneggenburger R., 

Markram H. 

Axis 2: stress and experiencedependent 

psychopathology 

Early-life stress cohort 

H: Ansermet F., Schechter D. 

Rodent models 

of early-life stress 

H: Sandi C. 


Ansermet François, Prof. 

Antonarakis Stylianos, Prof. 

Aubry Jean- Michel, Dr. 

Bettler Bernhard, Prof. 

Bezzi Paola, Dr. 

Blanke Olaf, Prof. 

Cardinaux Jean- René, Dr. 

Carleton Alan, Prof. 

Caroni Pico, Prof. 

Clarke Stephanie, Prof. 

Conus Philippe, Prof. 

Do Kim, Prof. 

Dayer Alexandre, Dr. 

Draganski Bogdan, Prof. 

Eap Chin, Dr. 

Eliez Stephan, Prof. 

Frackowiak Richard, Prof. 

Gruetter Rolf, Prof. 

Herzog Michael, Prof. 

Holtmaat Anthony, Prof. 

Lüscher Christian, Prof. 

High risk mood 

disorders cohort 

H: Preisig M., Marquet P., 

Aubry JM., Draganski B., 

Frackowiak R. 

Reward and fear circuits 

H: Lüscher C., Petersen C., 

Lüthi A. 

Serotonin neuromodulation 

H: Dayer A., Holtmaat A. 

Glial plasticity 

H: Magistretti P., Volterra A. 

KTT projects 

H: Bettler B., Eap C., 

Cardinaux JR., Herzog M. 

Service de Psychiatrie de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent, 

Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève 

Département de génétique médicale et de développement, 

Université de Genève et Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève 

Service de psychiatrie générale, Programme Bipolaire, 

Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève 

Institut für Physiologie, Universität Basel 

Faculté de biologie et de médecine, Université de Lausanne 

Laboratoire de neurosciences cognitives, EPF Lausanne 

Département de psychiatrie, Centre de Neurosciences 

Psychiatriques, Hôpital de Cery, Prilly 

Département des Neurosciences Fondamentales, Université de Genève 

Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Universität Basel 

Neuropsychologie et neuroréhabilitation, CHUV-UNIL, Lausanne 

Service de Psychiatrie Générale, Clinique psychiatrique 

universitaire, CHUV 

Unité de recherche sur la schizophrénie CNP, CHUV, Lausanne 

Département des Neurosciences Fondamentales, 


Departement des neurosciences cliniques, CHUV-UNIL, Lausanne 

Département de psychiatrie, Centre de Neurosciences 

Psychiatriques, Hôpital de Cery, Prilly 

Office Médico-Pédagogique, Université de Genève 

Département de Neurosciences cliniques, CHUV-UNIL, Lausanne 

Laboratoire Leenaards-Jeantet d‘imagerie fonctionnelle et 

métabolique, EPF Lausanne 

Laboratoire de psychophysique, EPF Lausanne 






Topics 

The aim of the NCCR “SYN- 

APSY, The synaptic bases 

of mental diseases” is to develop 

an ambitious translational 

program linking 

neuroscience to psychiatry 

with the aim to uncover the 

pathogenetic neurobiological 

mechanisms underlying 

mental and cognitive 

disorders. This will be 

achieved by bringing together 

a selected group of 

internationally recognized 

Lüthi Andreas, Prof. 

Magistretti Pierre, Prof. 

Markram Henry, Prof. 

Marquet Pierre, Prof. 

Michel Christoph, Prof. 

Muller Dominique, Prof. 

Murray Micah, Dr. 

Petersen Carl, Prof. 

Preisig Martin, Prof. 

Sandi Carmen, Prof. 

Schechter Daniel, Dr. 

Scheiffele Peter, Prof. 

Schneggenburger Ralf, Prof. 

Volterra Andrea, Prof. 

basic neuroscientists active 

in cutting-edge research 

relevant to higher brain 

functions with researchoriented 

academic psychiatrists. 

In addition to the expected 

scientific outcomes, 

the establishment of this 

NCCR should have an important 

clinical and societal 

impact: based on the understanding 

of the pathophysiological 

mechanisms 

underlying mental disorders, 

one can expect the 

development of novel preventive 

and therapeutic approaches 

which ultimately 

will improve the quality of 

life of patients. It will also 

contribute to the emergence 

of a new generation of clinicians 

with a strong neuroscientific 

background thus 

positioning Switzerland as 

a leader at the international 

level in neuroscience-based 

psychiatry. 

Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, 

Universität Basel 


Centre de neurosciences psychiatriques, CHUV-UNIL, Lausanne 

Blue Brain Project, EPF Lausanne 

Neurosciences psychiatriques (PCN), UNIL, Prilly 





Department EEG Brain Mapping Core of the Center for Biomedical, 

CHUV-UNIL, Lausanne 

Laboratoire de traitement sensoriel, EPF Lausanne 

Département de psychiatrie, CHUV-Université de Lausanne 

Laboratoire de génétique comportementale, EPF Lausanne 

Unité de Recherche, Service de Psychiatrie de l’Enfant et de 

l’Adolescent , Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève 

Neurobiologie, Biozentrum, Universität Basel 

Laboratoire de mécanismes synaptiques, EPF Lausanne 

Département de biologie cellulaire et de morphologie, 



Programmes 

• FP7 Eurospin Consortium 

• Initial Training Networks (ITN) 

• Symbad (FP7-People-ITN-2008) 


• Clinic for affective disorders 

and general psychiatry, 

University Hospital Zurich, CH 


University of North Carolina 

School of Medicine, Chapel 

Hill, US 


Charité, Berlin, DE 

• Department of Psychiatry, Tbilisi 

State Medical University, GE 


University of Bremen, 

Bremen, DE 

• Institute of Immunology, 

Alexander Fleming Biomedical 

Sciences Research Center, 

Vari, GR 

• Institute of Physiology, University 

of Saarland, Homburg, DE 

• Medical Image Processing Lab, 

University of Geneva, CH 

• Nikolaus Weiskopf, Wellcome 

Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, 

London, GB 

• Signal Processing Lab, 

EPFL, Lausanne, CH 


• Life Science Communication AG, 

Küsnacht, CH 

Others 

• Fondation de Préfargier, 

Marin-Epagnier, CH 

Scientific Advisory Board 

Hen René, Prof. 

Kendler Kenneth S., Prof. 

Le Moal Michel, Prof. 

Lyons-Ruth Karlen, Prof. 

Mayberg Helen S., Prof. 

McGorry Patrick, Prof. 

Ries Merikangas Kathleen, Prof. 

Division of Integrative Neuroscience, Depts. of Psychiatry, Neuroscience 

& Pharmacology, Columbia University, College of Physicians 

& Surgeons, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY 

Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia 

Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA 

Inserm, Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux 

Harvard Medical School, Director, Biobehavioral Family Studies 

Lab, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge, MA 

Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 

Atlanta, GA 

Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, 

Parkville, VIC, Australia 

Genetic Epidemiology Research Branch, Intramural Research 

Program, NIMH, Bethesda 

Robbins Trevor W., Director, Prof. Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Head of Dept. 

of Expt. Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK 


The synaptic bases of mental diseases 

NCCR SYNAPSY 



SNSF funding 3 610 000 4 560 000 4 655 000 4 655 000 17 480 000 39 


institution 1 2 375 000 3 225 000 3 225 000 2 225 000 11 050 000 25 



200 000 500 000 600 000 750 000 2 050 000 5 



150 000 500 000 600 000 650 000 1 900 000 4 


participants 

3 120 253 3 245 246 2 381 000 2 371 000 11 117 499 25 


Total 10 054 553 12 610 140 11 601 000 10 791 000 45 056 693 100 

Personnel 2 

Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

FR DE IT GB ES 

Management 2.6 3 3 50 3 50 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 






Other staff 40 31 78 9 23 21 7 5 1 2 0 4 

Total 186.56 97 51 93 49 92 30 14 14 7 5 35 

1 


2 


3 


4 




Hottiger Michael, Prof. (Chair) Swiss National Science Foundation, Berne, CH 

Berrettini Wade, Prof. 

School of Medicine, University Pennsylvania, US 

Chelly Jamel, Prof. 

Institut Cochin- Hôpital Cochin, Université Paris Descartes, FR 

Coyle Joseph Thomas, Prof. McLean Hospital Harvard Medical School Affiliate, US 

Hensch Takao K., Prof. 

Department Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, US 

Hock Christoph, Prof. 


Joels Marian, Prof. 

Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, 

University Medical Center Utrecht 

Kettenmann Helmut, Prof. Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, DE 

Koob George, Prof. 

Department of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research 

Institute, La Jolla, US 

Malenka Robert C., Prof. 

Stanford University School of Medicine, US 






phone: + 41 (0)31 308 23 51, fax: + 41 (0)31 305 29 71, 



From transport physiology 

to identification 

of therapeutic target 

NCCR TransCure 


University of Bern 


November 1, 2010 

Research 

Projects: 

Transporters as targets for 

cancer therapy (part A) 

Glutamate transporters as 

therapeutic targets (part B) 

H: Hediger M. A. 

Function, pharmacology 

and pathophysiology 

of the TRPC1 channel 

H: Niggli E. 

Physiology, pharmacology 

and pathophysiology of the 

calcium-activated non-selective 

cation TRPM4 channel 

H: Abriel H. 

Structure, function and pharmacology 

of sodium / calcium 

exchangers (SLC8, SLC24) 

H: Stahlberg H. 

Novel sodium/hydrogen 

exchanger NHA2 – a quest 

for biological function 

H: Fuster D. 

Structure, function and 

pharmacology of anoctamines, 

divalent metal ion 

transporters and vesicular 

neurotransmitter transporters 

H: Dutzler R. 

Vesicular neurotransmitter 

transporters: glutamate and 

monoamines 

H: Volterra A. 

Bezzi P. 

Structure and molecular 

transport mechanisms of 

selected solute transporters 

H: Fotiadis D. 

Glucose, myo-inositol 

and urate transporters 

H: Thorens B. 

Transporters in pathologies 

during pregnancy, part A 

H: Surbek D. 

Baumann M. 

Transporters in pathologies 

during pregnancy, part B 

H: Albrecht C. 

Ligand design for TRP 

channels and glutamate, 

monoamine, metal ion, 

vitamin C, nucleobase and 

myo- inositol transporters 

H: Reymond J.-L. 

Ligand development 

for the vesicular monoamine 

transporter VMAT2 and the 

putative endocannabinoid 

transporter 

H: Altmann K.-H. 

Development of selective 

fluorescence- and photoaffinity-labeled 

ligands 

for transporters and channels 

H: Lochner M. 

Screening assay development 

and targeting of the 

endocannabinoid transporter 

H: Gertsch J. 

Structural and mechanistic 

studies of lipid/drug 

transporters and their 

therapeutic relevance 

H: Locher K. 

Role of canalicular lipid 

secretion in acquired forms 

of cholestasis 

H: Stieger B. 

Role of ion transporter 

TRPV6 and other transporters 

in bone homeostasis 

H: Hofstetter W. 

Facilities 

Screening and assay development 

facility 

H: Hediger M. A. 

Bioinformatics facility 

H: Anderle P. 

CardioMet Mouse Metabolic 

Evaluation Facility (MEF) 

H: Thorens B. 

Bone and Mineral Research 

Facility 

H: Hofstetter W. 

Natural product libraries 

facility 

H: Gertsch J. 

Electron Crystallography 

facility 

H: Stahlberg H. 


Director 

Hediger Matthias A., Prof. 

phone: + 41(0)31 631 41 29 

matthias.hediger@ibmm.unibe.ch 


Reymond Jean-Louis, Prof. 

phone: +41 (0)31 631 43 25 

jean-louis.reymond@ioc.unibe.ch 

Scientific Officer 

Weisstanner Martin, Dr. 

phone: +41 (0)31 631 40 95 

martin.weisstanner@ibmm.unibe.ch 

Finances 

Knigge Salis Carsten, Dr. 

phone: +41 (0)31 631 36 22 

carsten.kniggesalis@ibmm.unibe.ch 

Communications 

Reymond Martine, Chem. Eng. 

EPFL, MBA 

phone: +41 (0)31 631 40 95 

martine.reymond@ibmm.unibe.ch 


Transfer 


EPFL, MBA 



EPFL, MBA 


Niggli Ernst, Prof. 

phone: +41 (0)31 631 87 30 

niggli@pyl.unibe.ch 

Address 


Institute for Biochemistry 

and Molecular Medicine 


Bühlstrasse 28, 3012 Bern 

Web Address 

www.transcure.org 


• TransCure Translations 

Newsletter 

• Newspaper articles 

and press releases 

• BioMedical Transporters 

Conference Series: 

www.bioparadigms.org 


From transport physiology 

to identification 

of therapeutic target 



Programmes 

• EUROCORES (ESF) 

• IFP TransCure 


• Cellular Neuroscience, Max 

Delbruck Center for Molecular 

Medicine, Berlin-Buch, DE 

• Center for Arrhythmia Research, 

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 

MI, US 

• Centre of interdisciplinary EM, 

EPF Lausanne, Lausanne, CH 

• Département de Pathologie, 

EPF Lausanne, CH 



• Department of Nephrology and 

Hypertension, University Hospital, 

Bern, CH 


University of Calabria, Arcavacata 

di Rende, IT 

• Department of Structural Biology, 

Free University of Brussels, 

Brussels, BE 

• Department of Surgery & Cancer, 

Imperial College, London, GB 

• Equipe Biologie des Métaux, 

Institut de Recherches en 

Technologies et Sciences pour le 

Vivant, Grenoble, FR 

• Faculté de Médecine, Centre de 

Recherche en Neurobiologie et 

Neurophysiologie, UMR6231- 

CNRS-Universite Aix-Marseille II 

et III, Marseille, FR 

• Hematology, St. Jude Children’s 

Hospital, Memphis, US 

• Immunology, Alexander Fleming 

Biomedical Sciences Research 

Center, Vari, GR 

• Institut du Thorax, Université de 

Nantes, FR 

• Institute for Neurodegenerative 

Diseases, University of California, 

San Francisco, US 

• Institute for Research in 

Biomedicine, University of 

Barcelona, Barcelona, ES 

• Institute of Clinical Chemistry, 

University of Zurich, Zurich, CH 

Heads and Co-Leaders of Individual Research Projects and Facilities 

Abriel Hugues, Prof. 

Albrecht Christiane, Prof. 

Altmann Karl-Heinz, Prof 

Anderle Pascale, Dr. 

Baumann Marc, Dr. 

Bezzi Paola, Dr. 

Dutzler Raimund, Prof. 

Fotiadis Dimitrios J., Prof. 

Fuster Daniel G., Dr. 

Gertsch Jürg, Prof. 

Hediger Matthias, Prof. 

Hofstetter Wilhelm, Prof. 

Locher Kaspar, Prof. 

Lochner Martin, Prof. 

Niggli Ernst, Prof. 

Reymond Jean-Louis, Prof. 


Stieger Bruno, Prof. 

Surbek Daniel, Prof. 

Thorens Bernard, Prof. 

Volterra Andrea, Prof. 

Topics 

The National Centre of 

Competence in Research 

(NCCR) “TransCure” is a 

joint effort of a multidisciplinary 

team of Swiss academic 

experts who are focused on 

cellular membrane transporter 

research and its application 

to the treatment of 

human diseases. Using the 

approach “from transport 

physiology to the identification 

of therapeutic targets” 

researchers are working collaboratively, 

sharing ideas, 

and focusing on common 

proteins and cellular pathways 

related to membrane 

transport. Transport proteins 

and ion channels play 

key roles in most physiological 

processes in the human 

body. They are gatekeepers 

in the membranes of cells 

and organelles and their 

dysfunction contributes to 

the pathogenesis of major 

human diseases such as diabetes, 

hypertension, cardiovascular 

diseases, cancer, 

preeclampsia, osteoporosis 

and neurodegenerative diseases. 

Thus, these proteins 

have a great, unexplored 

potential for the development 

of novel therapeutic 

strategies. The collaborative 

efforts of TransCure combine 

a unique interdisciplinary 

skill set to be applied to 

the developing therapeutic 

strategies by controlling the 

function of strategically important 

transporters in the 

diseased states. The skillset 

encompasses three major 

disciplines, referred to as 

“TransCure Trias”: Physiology/Medicine, 

Structural Biology 

and Medicinal Chemistry. 

TransCure members 

and programs are localized 

in many institutions 

across Switzerland and the 

TransCure approach is designed 

to facilitate collaboration 

and coordination of 

activities with an entrepreneurial 

spirit. The outcome 

of the NCCR TransCure project 

is expected to help develop 

strategies to improve 

human health. 

Departement Klinische Forschung, Universität Bern 

Institut für Biochemie und Molekulare Medizin, Universität Bern 

Institut für Pharmazeutische Wissenschaften, ETH Zürich 


Abteilung für Frauenheilkunde, Universitätsspital Bern 








Departement Klinische Forschung, Universität Bern 

Institut für Molekulare Biologie und Biophysik, ETH Zürich 

Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Universität Bern 

Institut für Physiologie, Universität Bern 

Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Universität Bern 

Biozentrum, Universität Basel 

Abteilung für Klinische Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, 

Universitätsspital Zürich 

Abteilung für Frauenheilkunde, Universitätsspital Bern 

Center for Integrative Genomics, Université de Lausanne 



Members of the International Advisory Board 


Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), EPFL 

Burrier Robert, Dr. 

Stemina Biomarker Discovery, Madison, US 

Grütter Markus, Prof. 





SNSF funding 3 040 000 3 705 000 3 705 000 3 705 000 14 155 000 51 


institution 1 2 007 035 823 976 758 060 541 200 4 130 271 15 


participants 

2 751 488 3 360 415 1 624 500 1 624 500 9 360 903 33 

Third-party funding 81 484 95 000 77 000 77 000 330 484 1 

Total 7 880 007 7 984 391 6 164 560 5 947 700 27 976 658 100 

Personnel 2 

1 


2 


3 


4 




Katharina Fromm, Prof. (Chair) 

Abagyan Ruben, Prof. 

Alper Seth L., Prof. 

Beech David, J., Prof. 


Dougherty Dennis A., Prof. 

Grzesiek Stephan, Prof. 

Schmitt Lutz, Prof. 

Stilz Hans- Ulrich, Dr. 

van Veen Hendrik, Prof. 

Wang Da- Neng, Prof. 



Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

DE IT FR AT IN 

Management 3.8 3 4 31 9 69 10 3 1 0 0 0 0 






Other staff 21 14 67 7 33 16 3 1 1 0 0 2 

Total 108.78 46 39 72 61 60 15 12 8 5 4 23 


School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical, Sciences University 

of California, US 

Renal Division and Molecular and Vascular Medicine Unit, 

Beth Israel Deaconess, UK 

Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, UK 


Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California 

Institute of Technology, US 


Institute of Biochemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, DE 

Chemical and Analytical Sciences, Sanofi-Aventis 

Deutschland GmbH, DE 

Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, UK 

Skirball Institute of Biomolecular, New York University 

School of Medicine, US 


phone: + 41 (0)31 308 23 50, fax: + 41 (0)31 305 29 71, 

uchrist@snf.ch 

• Institute of Human Physiology and 

Clinical Research Experimental 

Research, Semmelweis University, 

Budapest, HU 

• Institute of Pathology, 

University of Bern, CH 

• Institute of Physiology, University 

of Saarland, Homburg, DE 

• Institute Physiology Chemistry, 

University of Mainz, Mainz, DE 

• Membrane Research Group, 

Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 

Budapest, HU 

• Neuroscience, Columbia 


• Ninewells Medical School, 

University of Dundee, Dundee, GB 

• Obstetrics and Gynecology, 

University of Medicine and 

Dentistry of New Jersey, 

Newark, US 

• Okazaki Institute for Integrative 

Bioscience, National Institutes 

of Natural Sciences, 

Higashiyama 5-1, Myodaiji, JP 

• Pediatric Cardiology, Hôpitaux de 

Lyon, FR 

• Pharmacology, Universidad 

Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico 

• Pharmacology and Physiology, 

University of Medicine and 

Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, 

US 

• School of Life Sciences, University 

of Warwick, Coventry, GB 

• Swiss Institute Bioinformatics, 



• Dr. August Wolff GmbH, 

Bielefeld, DE 

• Dr. Willmar Schwabe 

Pharmaceuticals, Karlsruhe, DE 

• HiQScreen, Geneva, CH 

• Labormedizinisches Zentrum Dr. 

Risch AG, Liebefeld, CH 

• MercaChem Inc., Nijmegen, NL 


Visualisation and Control of 

Biological Processes Using Chemistry 

NCCR Chemical Biology 



EPF Lausanne 


December 1, 2010 


Director 

Riezman Howard, Prof. 

howard.riezman@unige.ch 

Co-Director 

Johnsson Kai, Prof. 

kai.johnsson@epfl.ch 

Chief Operations Officer 

Caroline Loutre, Dr. 

caroline.loutre@unige.ch 

Financial Administrator 

Schnüriger Jean-Claude, Mr. 

jean-claude.schnuriger@unige.ch 


Transfer 

Susi Sturzenegger Varvayanis 

susan.sturzenegger@unige.ch 

Advancement of Young 

Researchers and Women 


monica.gotta@unige.ch 

Graduate Education 

Robbie Loewith 

robbie.loewith@unige.ch 

Communication 

Caroline Loutre, Dr. 

Address 



146 Sciences II, 30 quai Ernest 

Ansermet 


phone : +41 (0)22 379 6407 

Web Address 

www.nccr-chembio.ch 

Research 

Deep Diversity for Chemical 

Interference – Generate 

and discover small molecules 

interfering with biological 

processes 

H: Gademann K. 

Dubikovskaya, E., Dyson P., 

Reymond J.L., Heinis C., 

Turcatti G., Johnsson K., 

Lacour J., Riezman H., Zhu J., 

Waser J., Winssinger N. 

System Level Chemical 

interference – Novel active 

compounds inhibiting essential 

enzymes and proteins involved 

in signaling and other 

biological processes using 

whole cell assays developed 

through genetic engineering 

of yeast strains 

H: Loewith R. 

Dyson P., Gotta M., Riezman H., 

Turcatti G., Gademann K. 

Chemical Biology of 

Membranes: Localization 

and Endocytosis – Novel 

compounds affecting lipid 

metabolism and localisation 

identified by chemical 

interference and high content 

screening on tissue culture 

cells. New sensors for small 

molecules 

H: Gruenberg J. 

van der Goot G., Manley S., 

Reymond J.-L., Johnsson K., 

Gademann K., Riezman H. 

Chemical Biology of Signal 

Transduction: Monitoring 

and Manipulating Aurora-A 

Kinases in Living Cells with 

High Temporal and Spatial 

Resolution – New tools for 

quantitative information on 

signaling pathways and localisation 

of active signaling 

molecules 

H: Gönczy P. 

Johnsson K., Heinis C., 

Reymond J.-L., Riezman H. 

Chemical Biology of Notch 

Signaling - Quantitative information 

on the Notch signaling 

pathway, which is involved in 

cancer, using novel chemical 

approaches. 

H: Radtke F. 

Reymond J.-L., González-Gaitán M., 

Heinis C., Johnsson K., 

Turcatti G., Zhu J. 

Biophysics of Cell Division 

- Using physics and chemical 

biology to understand 

asymmetric division in model 

organisms 

H: González-Gaitán M. 

Vogel H., Manley S., Riezman 

H., Roux A., Johnsson K. 

Chemical Biology of Membranes: 

Dynamic Fluorescent 

Probes and Cellular Uptake 

– New probes for examining 

membrane environments and 

new technologies to introduce 

molecules into cells 

H: Matile S. 

Riezman H., Zumbuehl A., 

Roux A., Manley S., van der 

Goot G., Johnsson K., Lacour J. 

Platform 

ACCESS – Academic Chemical 

Screening for Switzerland 

H: Johnsson K. 

Riezman H., Gademann K., 

Zhu J., Lacour J., Turcatti G., 

Gönczy P., Gruenberg J., 

Reymond J.-L. 

Transfer projects (strong 

Swiss franc package) 

Determining the intracellular 

concentration of therapeutic 

peptides with sub-cellular 

resolution 

H: Johnsson K. 



Topics 

An understanding of life on 

a molecular level requires 

the characterisation of all 

biochemical activities of an 

organism with high spatial 

and temporal resolution. 

Progress towards this ambitious 

goal is thwarted by 

a shortage of technologies 

that permit a spatiotemporal 

quantification of biochemical 

activities in living 

cells and the lack of tools 

to rapidly and specifically 

intervene in biochemical 

pathways to investigate 

function in situ. In this 

NCCR we propose to address 

these widely acknowledged 

needs by developing 

chemical approaches for 

the visualisation, quantification 

and manipulation of 

biochemical activities. 

Specifically, we will (i) focus 

on the development of new 

technologies in chemical interference 

and complement 

these approaches with the 

establishment of the platform 

ACCESS, (ii) develop 

new technologies for the 

visualization of previously 

invisible biochemical 

acti-vities, (iii) develop 

generalised techniques to 

deliver bioactive molecules 

and sensors into cells, and 

(iv) use advanced spectroscopy 

and super-resolution 

microscopy in biological 

systems. These novel techniques 

will be applied to 

model organisms such as 

yeast, flies and worms, as 

well as animal cell cultures. 

Two major biological areas 

will be addressed with these 

techniques, intracellular 

events of signal transduction 

and membrane biology, 

with emphasis on endocytosis 

as this pathway regulates 

signal transduction. 

These areas were chosen 

because they can immediately 

profit from the new 

tools of chemical biology. 

The technologies developed 

within this NCCR will be 

flexible to the needs of and 

thus available to the larger 

Swiss scientific community. 

ACCESS, built on foundations 

of the Biomolecular 

Screening Facility at the 

EPFL will have an outstation 

in Geneva. The NCCR 

will create a functional high 

throughput, high content 

screening facility with a 

diverse chemical library. 

Other novel strategies to 

inhibit enzymes, including 

natural products, bicyclic 

peptides and computational 

approaches will be used. 

We are convinced that this 

multidisciplinary approach 

will allow us to achieve 

major breakthroughs in our 

understanding of biology 

and that the technologies 

developed in this NCCR 

will have an impact on biology 

and medicine in general. 

Programmes 

• Fellowship EMPO (EMBO ALTF 

816-2009) 

• IEF SupraL SAS 

• Lipidx 

• PSRP 

• QuanTissue (European Science 

Foundation) 


• Swiss Téléthon, Telethon Institute 

of Genetics and Medicin, Berne, CH 


• Lyncée Tec SA, Lausanne, CH 

Others 

• FCI Fonds der Chemischen 

Industrie - Stiftung Stipendien- 

Fonds, Frankfurt, DE 


Dubikovskaya Elena, Prof. Institut des sciences et ingénierie chimiques, EPF Lausanne 

Dyson Paul, Prof. 

Institut des sciences et ingénierie chimiques, EPF Lausanne 

Gademann Karl, Prof. 

Departement Chemie, Universität Basel 

Gönczy Pierre, Prof. 

Institut suisse de recherche expérimentale sur le cancer, ISREC 

González-Gaitán Marcos, Prof. Département de biochimie, Université de Genève 


Faculté de médecine, Université de Genève 

Gruenberg Jean, Prof. 

Département de biochimie, Université de Genève 

Heinis Christian, Prof. 


Johnsson Kai, Prof. 


Lacour Jérôme, Prof. 

Département de chimie organique, Université de Genève 

Loewith Robbie, Prof. 

Département de biologie moléculaire, Université de Genève 

Manley Suliana, Prof. 

l‘Institut de physique des systèmes biologiques, EPF Lausanne 

Matile Stefan, Prof. 


Radtke Freddy, Prof. 

Section des sciences de la vie, EPF Lausanne 

Reymond Jean-Louis, Prof. Departement für Chemie und Biochemie, Universität Bern 

Riezman Howard, Prof. 


Roux Aurélien, Prof. 


Turcatti Gerardo, Dr. 

Faculté des sciences de la vie, EPF Lausanne 

Van der Goot Gisou, Prof. Section des sciences de la vie, EPF Lausanne 

Vogel Horst, Prof. 


Waser Jérôme, Prof. 


Winssinger Nicolas, Prof. 


Zhu Jieping, Prof. 


Zumbuehl Andreas, Prof. 

Département de chimie, Université Fribourg 


Visualisation and Control of 

Biological Processes Using Chemistry 




SNSF funding 1 2 660 000 4 180 000 3 450 000 3 230 000 13 520 000 49 


institution 

Self-funding from EPF 

Lausanne 


participants 

500 000 600 000 950 000 1 100 000 3 150 000 11 

750 000 2 250 000 1 750 000 1 250 000 6 000 000 22 

974 348 929 347 1 578 750 1 578 750 5 061 195 18 

Third-party funding 0 27 000 0 0 27 000 0 

Total 4 884 348 7 986 347 7 728 750 7 158 750 27 758 195 100 

Personnel 2 

Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

FR DE IT ES CA 

Management 2.8 4 3 43 4 57 2 2 2 1 0 0 1 






Other staff 7 5 71 2 29 2 3 0 1 0 0 1 

Total 107.80 46 41 66 59 26 18 15 11 7 4 33 

1 

Included funding of transfer projects (strong Swiss franc package) 

2 


3 


4 



5 




Dehio Christoph, Prof. (Chair) 

Cullis Pieter, Prof. 

Ellenberg Jan, Dr. 

Fischli Walter, Dr. 


Hall Michael, Prof. 

Kirchhausen Thomas, Prof. 

Muir Tom W., Prof. 

Pfeffer Suzanne, Prof. 

Schultz Carsten, Prof. 

Trauner Dirk, Prof. 




Department of Biochemistry, Life Science Center, Vancouver, CA 

EMBL Heidelberg, DE 

Academia Relations, Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Allschwil, CH 



Harvard Medical School, Boston, US 

Department of Chemistry, Princeton, US 

Stanford University School of Medicine, US 

EMBL Heidelberg, DE 

Department of Chemistry, University of Munich, DE 


phone: + 41 (0)31 308 23 50, fax: + 41 (0)31 305 29 71, 

uchrist@snf.ch 


North-South: Research 

Partnerships for Mitigating 

Syndromes of Global Change 

NCCR North-South 




July 1, 2001 


Research 

Thematic Node 1 

Institutions, Livelihoods, 

Conflicts 

Heads: Müller-Böker U., 

Goetschel L. 

Research Projects 

Contested rural development 

Co-Leaders: Geiser U., 

Ramakumar R. 

Livelihood futures 

Co-Leaders: Shahbaz B., 

Sharma S.R. 

Migration and development 

Co-Leaders: Thieme S., 

Ghimire A. 

Environmental conflicts 

Co-Leaders: Fokou G., 

Mulugeta A. 

Negotiating statehood 

Co-Leaders: Péclard D., 

Akindès F. 

Private-sector peace 

promotion 

Co-Leaders: Iff A., Upreti B. 


Health, Services, Planning 

Heads: Tanner M., Hering J., 

Zinsstag J., Zurbrügg C. 


Reproductive resilience 

Co-Leaders: Pfeiffer C., 

Ahorlu C. 

Productive sanitation 

Co-Leaders: Nguyen Viet H., 

Kengne I.M. 

User-driven sanitation 

Co-Leaders: Lüthi C., 

Koottatep T. 

Services for 

mobile populations 

Co-Leaders: Schelling E., 

Bonfoh B. 


Resources, Economy, 

Governance 

Heads: Wiesmann U., 

Hurni H., Carbonnier G. 


Land resource potentials 

Co-Leaders: Wolfgramm B., 

Yitaferu B. 

Landscape transformation 

Co-Leaders: Heinimann A., 

Zeleke G. 

Rural transformation 

Co-Leaders: Rist S., Tapia N. 

Access and welfare 

Co-Leaders: Kiteme B., 

Epprecht M., Sy I. 

Adaptation to climate change 

Co-Leaders: Ifejika Speranza C., 

Koné B., Ur-Rahim I. 

Integrative Node 

Global Change and 

Sustainable Development 

Head: Hurni H. on behalf 

of the Board of Directors 

Special Research Projects 

on Global Issues 

Transnational pressure 

on land 

Co-Leaders: Breu T., Upreti B. 

Global water challenges 

Co-Leaders: Cissé G., Kiteme B. 

Food security and sovereignty 

Co-Leaders: Bonfoh B., 

Zinsstag J. 

Beyond the MDGs 

Co-Leaders: Geiser U., Suleri A. 

Mobility and migration 

Co-Leaders: Schelling E., 

Thieme S. 

Climate change and 

smallholders 

Co-Leaders: Goetschel L., 

Ur Rahim I. 

Research 

in Partnership Regions 

Within the Partnership 

Regions Project, the NCCR 

North-South continues to 

carry out integrated, contextspecific, 

sustainabilityoriented 

research in the 

following regions: 

West Africa (WAF) 

Coordinator: Bonfoh B. 

(Côte d’Ivoire) 

East Africa (EAF) 

Coordinator: Kiteme B. (Kenya) 

Horn of Africa (HOA) 

Coordinator: Debele B. 

(Ethiopia) 

Central Asia (CAS) 

Coordinator: Arynova M. 

(Kyrgyzstan) 

South Asia (SAS) 

Coordinator: Upreti B. (Nepal) 

Southeast Asia (SEA) 

Coordinator: Koottatep T. 

(Thailand) 

Caribbean & Central America 

(CCA) 

Coordinator: Perez Gutierrez 

M.A. (Costa Rica) 

South America (SAM) 

Coordinator: Jimenez E.(Bolivia) 

Swiss Alps (ALP) 

Coordinator: Liechti K. 

(Switzerland) 

Partnership Actions for 

Mitigating Syndromes 

of Global Change 

(PAMS) 

The NCCR North-South is 

implementing a series of pilot 

activities that apply research 

results in concrete development 

settings. These are proposed by 

researchers and partner institutions 

through programme calls, 

selected by the Board, and executed 

in collaboration with the 

Coordinators in the Partnership 

Regions. 

Platforms, 

Programmes etc. 

Secretariat of the Swiss 

Commission for Research 

Partnerships with Developing 

Countries (KFPE) 

Executive Secretary: 

Lys J.-A., Dr. 

Directors 

Hurni Hans, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)31 631 88 76 

hans.hurni@cde.unibe.ch 

Wiesmann Urs, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)31 631 88 69 

urs.wiesmann@cde.unibe.ch 

Coordinator 

Breu Thomas, Dr. 

phone: + 41 (0)31 631 30 58 

thomas.breu@cde.unibe.ch 

Deputy Coordinator 

Herweg Karl, Dr. 

Management Assistant 

Vollenwyder Barbara, Ms. 

Knowledge and 


Michel Claudia, Dr. 


Herweg Karl, Dr. 

Advancement of Women / 

Career Building 

Zimmermann Anne, Dr. 

Partnership Actions 

Heim Eva Maria, Dr. 


Lardelli Corina, Ms. 

Financial Management 

Balsiger Urs, MBA 

Address 



Hallerstrasse 10 

3012 Bern 

phone: + 41 (0)31 631 52 72 

fax: + 41 (0)31 631 85 44 

nccr-north-south@cde.unibe.ch 

Web Addresses 

www.north-south.unibe.ch 

www.igs-north-south.ch 


• Website 

• Brochure 

• Policy briefs: evidence 

for policy 

• Outcome highlights 

• Newsletters 

• Media releases 

• Flyer 







Programmes 

• AKDN 

• CAMP 

• CEIL PIETTE (CONICET) 

• ESAPP 

• European Observatory for Health 

Systems 

• FSC 

• IHDP 

• IWGIA 

• KRP LLD 

• N-AERUS 

• OWC 

• UNCHS 

• UNISDR 

• WOCAT 


• Agrarian Institut, Bishkek, KG 

• Agricultural Information 

Resource Center, Nairobi, KE 

• Asian Institute of Technology 

Center in Vietnam (AITCV), 

Hanoi,VN 

• ASR, Rural Sociology, 

Guadalajara, MX 

• Unité de Formation et de 

Recherche,Abidjan, CI 

• Centre d’Economie et d’Ethique 

pour l’Environnement et le 

Développement (C3ED), 

Laboratoire de recherche 

de l’Université de Versailles, FR 

• Centre for Environmental 

Engineering in Towns and 

Industrial Areas (CEETIA), Hanoi 

University of Civil Engineering,VN 

• Centre for Molecular Microbiology 

and Infection, Imperial College, 

London, GB 

• Institut de recherche pour 

le développement, Centre IRD 

d’Orléans, FR 

• Centre Régional pour l’Eau Potable 

et L’Assainissement à faible 

coût (CREPA), Ouagadougou, BF 

• Colegio de la Frontera Su, 

Tapachula, MX 

• Department of Agricultural 

Extension, University of 

Agriculture, Faisalabad, PK 

• Department of Anthropology, 

Kannur University, Kerala, IN 

• Department of Environmental 

Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City 

University of Technology, 

Ho Chi Minh City, VN 

• Department of Epidemiology, 

Hanoi School of Public Health,VN 

• Dept. of Forest Mensuration and 

Management, Sokoine University 

of Agriculture, Morogoro,TZ 

• Department of Geography, 

University of Ho Chi Minh City,VN 


University of Nairobi, KE 

• Department of Health Economics, 

Hanoi Medical University,VN 

• Department of Plant Biology, 

University of Yaoundé, CM 

• Dept. of Political Science and 

International Relations (DPSIR), 

Addis Abeba University, ET 

• Department of Social and 

Environmental Medicine, Faculty of 

Tropical Medicine, Bangkok,TH 

• Department of Sociology 

and Anthropology, 

University of Dar Es Salaam,TZ 

Head Representatives of Institutional Partners in Switzerland 

Carbonnier Gilles, Prof. 

Goetschel Laurent, Prof. 

Hering Janet, Prof. 

Hurni Hans, Prof. 

Müller-Böker Ulrike, Prof. 

Tanner Marcel, Prof. 

Wiesmann Urs, Prof. 

Zinsstag Jakob, Prof. 

Zurbrügg Christian, Mr. 

Coordinators of Partnership Regions 

Arynova Mira 

Bonfoh Bassirou, Prof. 

Debele Berhanu 

Jimenez Elizabeth, Dr. 

Kiteme Boniface, Dr. 

Koottatep Thammarat, Dr. 

Perez Gutierrez Maria Angelina 

Upreti Bishnu Raj, Dr. 

Liechti Karina, Dr. 

North-South Partnership Institutions 

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies 

(IHEID), Genève, CH 

swisspeace, Bern, CH 

Eawag, Dübendorf, CH 

Centre for Development and Environment, CDE / GIUB 


Development Study Group, GIUZ, University of Zurich, CH 

Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Swiss TPH, 


Centre for Development and Environment, CDE / GIUB 


Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Swiss TPH, 


Eawag - Sandec, Dübendorf, CH 

Regional Coordination Office Central Asia, Bishkek, KG 

Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques, Abidjan, CI 

Regional Coordination Office Horn of Africa, Addis Abeba, ET 

Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo (CIDES), La Paz, BO 

Centre for Training and Integrated Research in Arid and Semi-arid 

Lands Development CETRAD, Nanyuki, KE 

Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Pathumthani, TH 

Facultad Latinoamericana en Ciencias Sociales FLACSO-CR 

San José, CR 

Regional Coordination Office South Asia, Kathmandu, NP 

Centre for Development and Environment, CDE, 


Agroecologia Universidad Cochabamaba AGRUCO, BO 

Ayuda Obrera Suiza AOS, La Paz, BO 

Central Department of Geography CDG, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, NP 

Centre de Support en Santé Internationale CSSI, N’Djaména, TD 

Centre de Technique de la Planification et d’Economie Appliquée CTPEA, Port-au-Prince, HT 

Centre for Development Studies CDS, Kerala, IN 

Centre for Security Studies FSK, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, CH 

Centre for Training and Integrated Research in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands Development CETRAD, 

Nanyuki, KE 

Centre National d’Hygiène CNH, Nouakchott, MR 

Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques CSRS, Abidjan, CI 

Centro Bartolomé de las Casas CBC, Centre for Andean Regional Studies, Colegio Andino, Cuzco, PE 

Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo CIDES, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, BO 

City Government of Kunming, CN 

Departamento de Organización del Espacio DOE, Universidad Centroamericana “José Simeón Cañas”, 

San Salvador, SV 

Département de Sociologie et Anthropologie, Université de Yaoundé DSA-UY, CM 

Department of Geography, University Dar es Salaam, TZ 

Department of Natural Science, Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University, Bishkek, KG 

Department of Urban Water Management UWM, EAWAG, Duebendorf, CH 

Directorship of the Sierra de Manantlán Biosphere Reserve DRBSM, Autlán, MX 

Ecole Inter-Etats d’Ingénieurs de l’Equipement Rural EIER, Ouagadougou, BF 

Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques ESSA, University of Antananarivo, MG 

Ethiopian Amhara Region Agricultural Research Institute ARARI, Bahr Dar, ET 

Facultad de Agronomia, Agroecologia, Universidad Cochabamba AGRUCO, BO 


Topics 

Humankind and the world 

ecosystem are confronted 

by mounting insecurity 

stemming from rapid 

global change, unchecked 

globalisation and global 

disparities. Particularly 

in developing and transition 

countries, a variety of 

core issues may compound 

one another and give rise 

to “syndromes of global 

change” that hinder sustainable 

development. Yet 

the same countries facing 

the most acute problems 

are often least equipped to 

develop ways of mitigating 

them. Research partnerships 

between institutions 

in the North and the South 

thus offer an efficient way 

to overcome disparities in 

capacity, technology and 

resources, and enable us to 

chart a joint path forward 

towards a sustainable future. 

Now in its third phase, the 

NCCR North-South programme 

has proven to be 

an effective means of facilitating 

mutually beneficial 

collaboration between institutions 

and individuals in 

developing and transition 

countries and in Switzerland. 

Displaying a robust 

network of 350 researchers 

from about 50 countries, 

the programme continues 

to carry out high-quality 

disciplinary, interdisciplinary 

and transdisciplinary 

research that improves our 

understanding of global 

change and promotes 

sustainable development. 

Phase 3 of the programme 

is characterised by a sharpened 

focus on specific core 

themes, increased emphasis 

on integrating and 

disseminating research to 

date, intensified work on 

translating research results 

into concrete recommendations 

for policy and practice 

and sustained efforts 

towards capacity development 

and societal empowerment 

in the South. 

Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales FLACSO, San José, CR 

Faculté des Sciences et Gestion de l’Environnement, Université d’Abobo-Adjamé - UAA-FGS, Abidjan, CI 

Gujarat Institute for Development Research, Ahmedabad, IN 

INESA Société Inter-Entreprises, Port-au-Prince, HT 

Institute of Anthropology, University of Basel, CH 

Institute of Economic Growth, University Enclave, New Delhi, IN 

Institute of Social Anthropology ESUZ, University of Zurich, CH 

Institute of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Central University of Venezuela, 

Caracas, VE 

Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales IIS de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico UNAM, 

Mexico City, MX 

Inter-Municipal Initiative IMI, Autlán, MX 

Kunming Institute of Environmental Science, CN 

Laboratoire de Recherches Vétérinaires et Zootechniques de Farcha LRVZ, N’Djaména, TD 

Laboratory of Hydrology and Land Improvement HYDRAM, ISTE, EPF Lausanne, CH 

Manantlán Institute of Ecology and Conservation of Biodiversity IMECBIO, University of Guadalajara, 

Autlán, MX 

Mekong River Commission MRC, Vientiane, LA 

Nepal Institute of Development Studies NIDS, Kathmandu, NP 

Pollution Control Department PCD, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Bangkok, TH 

Post-graduate Course on Developing Countries ETHZ-NADEL, Zurich, CH 

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK, Potsdam, DE 

School of Environment, Resources and Development SERD, Asian Institute of Technology AIT, 

Bangkok, TH 

Sustainable Development Policy Institute SDPI, Islamabad, PK 

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC, Regional Cooperation Office, Bishkek, KG 

Tajik Academy of Sciences, Dushanbe, TJ 

UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site, Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn JAB, Naters, CH 

Universidad Mayor de San Simon UMSS, Cochabamba, BO 

University of Cocody, Abidjan, CI 

Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, UZ 

Yunnan Academy of Social Science, Kunming, CN 

• Department of Sociology, 

Delhi School of Economics, IN 

• Dept.of Sociology, North Eastern 

Hill University, Shillong, IN 


University of Dhaka, BD 



• Department of Urban and 

Regional Planning, 


• Directorate of Livestock and 

Dairy Development, Peshawar, PK 

• East Africa Wildlife Society, 

Nairobi, KE 

• Ecole Nationale Supérieure 

d’Agronomie (ENSAM), 


• Environment and Sustainable 

Development, United Nations 

University,Tokyo, JP 

• Environmental Research Mapping 

and Information Systems in Africa 

(ERMIS), Nakuru, KE 

• Environmental Thematic Group, 

Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es 

Salaam, TZ 

• European Association of 

Development Research and 

Training Institutes (EADI), 

Bonn, DE 

• Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y 

Sociales, Universidad Nacional 

Autonoma, MX 

• Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, 

Université de Nouakchott, MR 

• Faculty of Environment and 

Resource Studies, Mahidol 

University, Nakhon Pathom,TH 

• Faculty of Environmental Studies 

and Natural Resources, 

Egerton University, Njoro, KE 

• Faculty of Forestry and Nature 

Conservation, Sokoine University 

of Agriculture, Morogoro,TZ 

• Faculty of Technology, Makerere 

University, Kampala, UG 

• Food security, Sustainable 

Development Policy Institute, 

Islamabad, PK 

• French Institute for African 

Research (IFRA), Nairobi, KE 

• Fundación de la Universidad de 

Costa Rica para la Investigación 

(FUNDEVI), San José, CR 

• Groupement d’Intérêt 

Scientifique pour l’Etude 

de la Mondialisation et du 

Développement (GEMDEV), 

Paris, FR 

• Hanoi School of Public Health,VN 

• Institut d’Ethno-Sociologie, 

Université de Cocody, Abidjan, CI 

• Institut Supérieur Inter-Etats de 

formation et de recherche dans les 

domaines de l’Eau, l’Energie, 

l’Environnement et les 

Infrastructures, Ouagadougou, BF 

• Institute of Geography, 

Ministry of Science and Education, 

Almaty, KZ 

• Inst. of Livestock,Veterinary 

Sciences and Pastures, 

Bishkek, KG 

• Institute of Physical Geography, 

University of Freiburg, Freiburg, DE 

• Instituto del Conurbano (ICO), 

Universidad General Sarmiento, 

Buenos Aires, AR 

• Inst. Dr. José Maria Luis Mor, MX 

• Instituto Superior de Estudios 

Avanzados en Desarroll, La Paz, BO 


• Instituto Tecnologico de Costa 

Rica, Cartago, CR 

• International Atomic Energy 

Agency (IAEA),Wien,AT 

• International Centre for 

Agricultural Research in Dry Areas 

(ICARDA), Aleppo, SY 

• International Centre for 

Integrated Mountain Development 

(ICIMOD), Kathmandu, NP 

• Intern. Centre for Research in 

Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi, KE 

• International Water Management 

Institute (IWMI), Accra, GH 

• Journalists for Democracy and 

Human Rights, Islamabad, PK 

• Kenya Agricultural Research 

Institute, Makindu, KE 

• Kenya Forest Working Group, 

Nairobi, KE 

• Kyrgyz Giprozem, Bishkek, KG 

• Liverpool School of Tropical 

Medicine, Vulnerability and Health 

Alliance, GB 

• Naryn State University, Bishkek, KG 

• National Centre for Soil and 

Fertiliser, Hanoi,VN 

• National Soil Testing Centre, 

Ministry of Agriculture, Addis 

Ababa, ET 

• Observatoire de l’Ecopolitique 

Internationale (OEI), Université 

du Québec,Montreal, CA 

• Office of Population Research, 

Princeton University, US 

• School of Bio-Chemical 

Engineering and Technology, 

Sirindhorn International Institute 

of Technology, Thammasat 

University, Pathum Thani, TH 

• School of Earth and Environment, 

University of Leeds, Leeds, GB 

• School of Environment, Resources 

and Development, Bangkok,TH 

• School of Geography and the 

Environment, University of Oxford, 

Oxford, GB 

• School of Public Health, 

Makerere University, Kampala, UG 

• Soil Physics and Environmental 

Resources Conservation, 

Institute of Land Use, Rostock, DE 

• Soil Science Research Institute 

(SSRI), Agrarian Academy 

of Science, Dushanbe, TJ 

• Sustainable Livelihoods, 

Sustainable Development Policy 

Institute, Islamabad, PK 

• Tajik Academy of Agricultural 

Science, Dushanbe, TJ 

• Tata Institute of Social Sciences, 

Mumbai, IN 

• United Nations Habitat 

Programme, Nairobi, KE 

• University of Veterinary 

and Animal Sciences, Lahore, PK 

• Urban Sociology Department, 

Autonomous University of Mexico, 

Azcapotzalco, MX 

• Water and Forestry Department, 

Ecole Supérieure des Sciences 

Agronomiques, Antananarivo,MG 

Economy/Industry 

• Alter Ego, Lausanne, CH 

• Humer Foundation, Hoffmann-La 

Roche Holding, Basel, CH 

• Nestlé, Abidjan, CI 

Others 

• Bread for All / Brot für Alle, 

Berne, CH 

• Central Asia Mountain Information 

Network, Bishkek, KG 

• City Medical Office of Health 

and Dar es Salaam City Council, 

Dar es Salaam,TZ 

• Femina/HIP, Dar es Salaam, TZ 

• Conflict Prevention and Conflict 

Transformation, Bern, CH 

• Cooperation and Training Division, 

Urban Research Institute (URI), 

Vientiane, LA 






In Phase 3, the research activities 

of the NCCR North- 

South programme are 

organised between three 

Thematic Nodes grouped 

around an Integrative 

Node. The Thematic Nodes 

combine advanced research 

on (1) “Institutions, Livelihoods, 

Conflicts”, (2) 

“Health, Services, Planning”, 

and (3) “Resources, 

Economy, Governance”. 

Each Thematic Node is supported 

by at least two Swiss 

Institutional Partners, together 

with their partners 

abroad, and comprises four 

to six Research Projects. 

The individual projects are 

co-led by post-doctoral researchers 

from the South 

and the North who jointly 

oversee an international 

team of post-doctoral and 

senior researchers, PhD 

and master‘s students. The 

teams conduct their research 

in at least two out of 

nine established Partnership 

Regions spread across 

four continents. 

Scientific Output 

Activities in the first ten 

years produced over 1500 

publications (of which over 

517 were refereed), more 

than 850 reports and 2886 

presentations, all of which 

resulted directly from the 

research carried out in the 

programme. A total of 231 

PhD studies have been 

launched so far, of which 

120 are now completed. In 

the past year, 11 new PhD 

students with external 

funding were associated to 

the programme. 

Integration and Synthesis 

In Phase 3, the main vehicle 

for integration and synthesis 

of all programme activities 

is the Integrative Node. 

The Integrative Node forms 

a hub of exchange between 

the Thematic Nodes and 

encompasses a Special Research 

Project on global 

development issues, the 

Transversal Project and a 

Partnership Regions Project. 

The Special Research 

Project on global issues is 

designed to guide the programme 

on three levels: on 

the level of policy and practice, 

by generating concrete 

recommendations for both 

that reflect contextual validity 

and reach; on the level 

of synthesis and generalisation, 

by empirically assessing 

interregional variation 

of core sustainability issues 

and comparing them to 

current global debates; and 

on the level of knowledge 

and research, by refining 

key concepts, issues and 

methodologies surrounding 

sustainable development 

and reflecting on sustainability 

science. Within the 

Transversal Project, individual 

and institutional 

partners implement a number 

of synthesis projects 

that aim to capitalise on 

the results achieved over 

the life span of the NCCR 

North-South. Finally, the 

Partnership Regions Project 

continues to build and 

strengthen the network of 

exchange between the nine 

regions that provide the 

actual setting for all of the 

programme‘s field-based 

research and initiatives. 

Institutionalisation 

Phase 3 promises to bring 

major developments in establishing 

permanent institutions 

to carry on the work 

of the NCCR North-South. 

An inter-university doctoral 

programme on “Global 

Change, Innovation and 

Sustainable Development” 

was launched in 2008, and 

a corresponding “International 

Graduate School 

North-South” is now incorporating 

the experience of 

the NCCR North-South and 

cultivating its international 

network in the long term. 

The doctoral programme 

and the graduate school 

are being jointly implemented 

by the Centre for 

Development and Environment 

(CDE, University 

of Bern), Swisspeace and 

the Swiss Tropical and 

Public Health Institute 

(University of Basel) and 

the Development Study 

Group (University of Zurich). 

CDE was established 

in 2009 as an interdisciplinary 

university centre. 

With its extended mandate, 

it will lastingly contribute 

to a strengthened Swiss 

role in partnership-based 

sustainability research and 

outreach that addresses the 

needs of developing and 

transition countries. 


www.north-south.unibe.ch 

www.igs-north-south.ch 




SNSF funding 3 200 000 2 000 000 1 800 000 1 000 000 8 000 000 24 


institution 1 474 735 547 655 695 885 1 081 742 2 800 017 9 


participants 

1 242 453 1 677 818 1 414 680 1 433 742 5 768 693 18 

Third-party funding from 

SDC 

3 392 554 4 147 360 4 171 252 4 461 187 16 172 353 49 

Total 8 309 742 8 372 833 8 081 817 7 976 671 32 741 063 100 

Personnel 2 

Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

CI DE NP TZ VN 

Management 6.0 3 8 53 7 47 11 0 2 0 0 0 2 






Other staff 88 48 55 40 45 19 4 3 7 9 6 41 

Total 254.00 118 45 145 55 68 14 15 14 13 14 128 


Totals 





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2 


3 


4 


5 



6 


7 





Butera Fabrizio, Prof. (Chair) 

Bradley David, Prof. 

Brock Lothar, Prof. 

Foray Dominique, Prof. 

Jeffery Roger, Prof. 

Narasimha Reddy D., Prof. 

Rychen Dominique Simone, Ms. 

Stocking Michael, Prof. 

Wehrli Bernhard, Prof. 




Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School 

of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, GB 

Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Johann Wolfgang 

Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, DE 


Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, GB 

Department of Economics, University of Hyderabad, 

Hyderabad, IN 

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Berne, CH 

School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, 

Norwich, GB 




• Department of Health, Ministry 

of Public Health, Bangkok,TH 

• Ecocenter Pamir, Khorog, 

Tajikistan, TJ 

• ENDA-Third World, Relay for 

Participatory Urban Development, 

Dakar, SN 

• Environment and Public Health 

Organisation, Kathmandu, NP 

• Federación Nativa del Río Madre 

de Dios, Madre de Dios, PE 

• FORS, Lausanne, CH 

• Fundación Sodis, Cochabamba, BO 

• Gerling Foundation for Sustainable 

Development,Tenna, CH 

• German Advisory Council on 

Global Change, Berlin, DE 

• Ghana Health Service, Accra, GH 

• Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, 

Mexico City, MX 

• Holistic Understanding 

for Justified Research and Action 

(HUJRA), Mingora, PK 

• Institute Dayakologi, 

Kalimantan Barat, ID 

• Intercooperation, Peshawar, PK 

• International Land Coalition, 

Rome, IT 

• Kenya National Bureau of 

Statistics, Nairobi, KE 

• Kyrgyz Sheep Breeding 

Association, Bishkek, KG 

• Lao National Mekong Commission 

Secretariat,Vientiane, LA 

• Maji na Ufanisi (Water & 

Development), Nairobi, KE 

• Ministry of Education, 


• Ministry of Gender and 

Community Development, 


• Ministry of Health, 


• Municipality of San Salvador, 

San Salvador, SV 

• Pan-American Health Organization 

(WHO), Environmental Health, 

Food Security and Sustainable 

Development, San José, CR 

• PROClim, Berne, CH 

• Racimos de Ungurahui, Lima, PE 

• Republican Center of Veterinary 

Diagnostics, Bishkek, KG 

• Rural Advisory Services “Chui”, 

Bishkek, KG 

• Sampark, Bangalore, IN 

• Science,Technology and 

Environment Organization, 

Vientiane, LA 

• SDC Health, Bern, CH 

• Southeast Asian Ministers 

of Education Organization, 

Bangkok,TH 

• State Secretariat for Economic 

Affairs, Bern, CH 

• Sustainable Development 

Alternatives, Islamabad, PK 

• Swiss Red Cross, Bishkek, KG 

• Syngenta Foundation for 

Sustainable Agriculture, Basel, CH 

• UNICEF, N’Djaména,TD 

• Urban-Rural Solutions, Hanoi,VN 

• Velux Foundation, Zürich, CH 

• Vétérinaires sans Frontières, 

Lyon, FR 

• Virtual Academy, Bishkek, KG 

• Water for Asian Cities Programme, 

UN-Habitat, Kathmandu, NP 

• Water Supply and Sanitation 

Collaborative Council, Geneva, CH 

• World Conservation Union 

Tanzania,Tanga,TZ 

• World Health Organisation, 

Nouakchott, MR 

• WWF, Kathmandu, NP 


Plant Survival in Natural 

and Agricultural Ecosystems 

NCCR Plant Survival 


University of Neuchâtel 


April 1, 2001 


Director 

Turlings Ted, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)32 718 31 58 

ted.turlings@unine.ch 


Neuhaus Jean-Marc, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)32 718 22 07 

jean-marc.neuhaus@unine.ch 

Coordinator 

Held Matthias, Dr. 

phone: +41 (0)32 718 25 22 

matthias.held@unine.ch 

Office Secretary 

Jauslin Carol, Mrs. 

phone: + 41 (0)32 718 25 00 

plant.survival@unine.ch 

Communication 

Chlebny Igor, Mr. 

phone: + 41 (0)32 718 25 07 

igor.chlebny@unine.ch 

Knowledge and 


Klappert, Rolf Mr. 

phone: +41 (0)32 718 10 51 

rolf.klappert@unine.ch 

Equal Opportunities 

Perego Isabel, MA 

phone: +41 (0)32 718 10 59 

egalite.chance@unine.ch 



Bobillier Christiane, Dr. 

phone: + 41 (0)32 718 25 02 

christiane.bobillier@unine.ch 

Address 


Rue Emile-Argand 11 

2000 Neuchâtel 

phone: + 41 (0)32 718 25 00 

fax: + 41 (0)32 718 25 01 

plant.survival@unine.ch 

Web Address 

www.unine.ch/plantsurvival 


• Plant Survival News 

(trilingual English, French 

and German) 


• Website 

Research 

WP 1 

Plant fitness and 

abiotic interactions 

Leader: Kessler F. 

Chloroplast Metabolism 

Head: Kessler F. 

Fankhauser C., Hörtensteiner 

S., Rentsch D., Rochaix J. D., 

Goldschmidt-Clermont M., 

Zeeman S. 

Dynamics of mycorrhiza 

formation 

H: Martinoia E. 

Reinhardt D., Paszkowski, U. 

WP2 

Plant antagonists and 

mutualists 

Leader: Turlings T. 

Exploiting inducible root 

defenses for pest control 

H : Turlings T. 

Neuhaus J.-M., Mauch-Mani B., 

Gindro K., Steinger T., 

Farmer T., Felber, F., 

Wolfender, J.-L. 

Genetic dissection of pollination 

syndromes in Petunia 

H : Kuhlemeier C. 

Bshary R., Guerin P. 

Host specificity and hostassociated 

differentiation 

in phytophagous insects 

H : Benrey B. 

Bacher S., Romeis J. 

WP3 

Spread and impact of 

invasive plants 

L : Guisan, A. 

Invasiveness and ecosystem 

impact below and above the 

species level: refining and 

extending the Centaurea 

maculosa model 

H : Müller-Schärer H. 

Guisan A., Schaffner U. 

Determinants and impacts 

of plant spread and invasion: 

a comparative and 

experimental approach 

H: Fischer M. 

van Kleunen M. 

WP4 

Statistics and modelling 

Leader: Davison A. 

Bersier L.-F., Goldstein D. 



Hydrocapsules as Trojan 

horses for the application 

of biological control agents 

against root pests 

H: Turlings T. 


Technological Platforms, 


Sequencing 

and microarrays facilities 

H: Neuhaus J.-M. 

SPSW Chemical analytical 

service 

H: Glauser G. 

Analytical service 

of the Faculty 

H: Vallat A., Furrer J. 

ICP-MS service 

H: Matera V. 

Greenhouse facilities 

H: Grant J., Held M. 

Phytotron facilities 

H: Kessler F., Turlings T. 

Data analysis 

H: Davison A. 

GIS facilities (ECOSPAT lab) 

H: Guisan A. 

Doctoral Programme 

H: Turlings T. 

Bacher Sven, Dr. 

Département de Biologie, Université de Fribourg 

Benrey Betty, Dr. 

Institut de Biologie, Université de Neuchâtel 

Bersier Louis-Félix, Prof. 

Département de B iologie, Université de Fribourg 

Bshary Redouan, Prof. 


Davison Anthony C., Prof. Département de Mathématiques, EPF Lausanne 

Fankhauser Christian, Prof. Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne 

Farmer Edward E., Prof. 

Département de Biologie Moléculaire Végétale, 


Fischer Markus, Prof. 

Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Universität Bern 

Gindro Katia, Dr. 

Agroscope ACW Changins, Nyon 

Goldschmidt-Clermont Michel, Prof. Département de Biologie Moléculaire, Université de Genève 

Goldstein Darlene, Dr. 

Département de Mathématiques, EPF Lausanne 

Guerin Patrick, Dr. 

Laboratoire de Physiologie Sensorielle, Université de Neuchâtel 

Guisan Antoine, Prof. 

Departement d‘Ecologie et d‘Evolution, Université de Lausanne 


Topics 

Plants are the primary 

producers of organic matter 

on land and central to 

almost all ecosystems. The 

survival and performance 

of plants is of fundamental 

importance to both the 

preservation of biodiversity 

and sustainable agriculture. 

We explore interactions 

between plants, insects 

and pathogens, and 

also among plants, from the 

molecule to the ecosystem 

and landscape level. Research 

on plant fitness and 

abiotic interactions focuses 

on chloroplast metabolism 

Hörtensteiner Stefan, Dr. 

Kessler Felix, Prof. 

Kuhlemeier Cris, Prof. 

Martinoia Enrico, Prof. 

Mauch-Mani Brigitte, Dr. 

Müller-Schärer Heinz, Prof. 

Neuhaus Jean-Marc, Prof. 

Paszkowski Uta, Dr. 

Reinhardt Didier, Dr. 

Rochaix Jean-David, Prof. 

Romeis Jörg, Dr. 

Schaffner Urs, Dr. 

Steinger Thomas, Dr. 


van Kleunen Mark, Prof. 

Wolfender Jean-Luc, Prof. 

Zeeman Samuel C., Prof. 


Baldwin Ian T., Prof. 

Edwards Peter, Prof. 

Harter Klaus, Prof. 

Hartmann Thomas, Prof. 

Paré Paul W., Prof. 

under changing light conditions 

and nutrient acquisition, 

the latter being 

improved by symbioses 

with arbuscular mycorrhizal 

fungi. 

The field of plant-insect 

interactions deals with 

chemical defence compounds 

produced by the 

plant that attract natural 

enemies of its pests at the 

leaf-air and root-soil interfaces. 

Identifying the genes 

that play a role in pollinator 

selection is another aspect 

of this topic. Studies 

on the spread and impact 

of invasive plants consist 

in refining and extending 

the investigations on the 

causes of invasiveness. The 

aim is also to understand 

why, in contrast to invasive 

alien species, many native 

species are declining in 

the landscape. To support 

these research efforts, 

novel statistics and modelling 

methods are being developed, 

thereby providing 

an impetus for such interdisciplinary 

collaborations 

in Switzerland. 

Pflanzenbiologisches Institut, Universität Bern 

Laboratoire de Physiologie Végétale, Université de Neuchâtel 

Pflanzenbiologisches Institut, Universität Bern 

Labor für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Universität Zürich 


Département de Biologie, Université de Fribourg 

Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, 

Université de Neuchâtel 

Dép. de Biologie Moléculaire Végétale, Université de Lausanne 

Département de Biologie et Zoologie, Université de Fribourg 


Agroscope ART Reckenholz, Zürich 

CABI Bioscience Swiss Centre, Delémont 

Agroscope ACW, Changins Nyon 


Departement of Biology, University of Konstanz, Germany 

Laboratoire de Pharmacognosie et Phytochimie, 

Unviersité de Genève 

Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, ETH-Zentrum, Zürich 

Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology, Jena, DE 

Geobotanisches Institut, ETH-Zentrum, Zürich, CH 

Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, DE 

Institut für pharmazeutische Biologie, Technische Universität 

Braunschweig, DE 

Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, Texas Tech University, USA 


Programmes 

• ANGEL 

• Arabidopsis Starch Metabolism 

Network 

• COST 858 

• Croplife 

• DAISY 

• GIN 

• IGGP 

• InvaVol, ESF 

• ISCB 

• NEOBIOTA 

• NIOO-knaw 

• PNETOX 

• RVVS 

• SCOPES 

• Sinergia - Benzoxazinoids 

• SiTraMaisBT 

• SMARTER 

• SPSW 


• Abteilung Pflanzenernährung, 

Leibniz-Institut für Gemüse- und 

Zierpflanzenbau, Grossbeeren, DE 

• Arbeitsgemeinschaft zur Förderung 

des Futterbaus, c/o Agroscope 

Reckenholz, Zürich, CH 

• Bioinformatics and Information 

Technology, Leibniz-Institute 

of plant genetics and crop plant 

research, Gatersleben, DE 

• Botanica e Patologia vegetale, 

Facoltà di Agraria, Napoli, IT 

• Center for Environmental Science, 

Appalachian Laboratory, 

Frostburg, US 

• Centre for Organic Agriculture, 

University of Newcastle, GB 

• Centre Interprofessionnel de la 

Vigne et du Vin, Nîmes, FR 

• Campus Puerto Escondido, 

Universidad del Mar, Oaxaca, MX 

• c/o Agroscope Reckenholz, 

Arbeitsgemeinschaft zur Förderung 

des Futterbaus, Zürich, CH 

• Departement de Ciències Agràries 

i del Medi Natura, Universidad 

Jaume 1, Castellon, ES 

• Departemento de Ingenieria 

Genetica, Center for Research and 

Advanced Studies of the National 

Polytechnic Institute, Irapuato, MX 

• Department of Animal and Plant 

Sciences, University of Sheffield, GB 


Linköping University, SE 

• Department of Biology, University 

of Massachusetts, Boston, US 

• Department of Biology, University 

of Technology of Darmstadt, DE 

• Department of Botany, University 

of British Columbia,Vancouver, CA 

• Department of Ecology and 

Evolution, State University of 

New York, US 

• Department of Horticulture 

and Landscape Architecture, 

University of Colorado, US 

• Dipartimento Scientifico e 

Tecnologico, University of Verona, IT 

• Diversité et Génomes des Plantes 

Cultivées, Institut National 

de la Recherche Agronomique, 


• Div. of Genome and Biodiversity 

Research, National Institute 

of Agrobiological Sciences, 

Tsukuba, JP 

• Division of Molecular And Cellular 

Biology, Nagoya University, JP 

• Division of Plant Sciences, 

National Institute of Agrobiological 

Sciences, Tsukuba, JP 

• Ecological Systems Laboratory, 

University of Besançon, FR 

• Ecotoxicology, Ecological Sediment 

and Soil Assessment, München, DE 

• Entomology Department, National 

University of Cordoba, Cordoba, AR 


Plant Survival in Natural 

and Agricultural Ecosystems 


• Entomology Department, 

Commonwealth Scientific and 

Industrial Research Organisation, 

Wembley, AU 

• Entomology, International Maize 

and Wheat Improvement Center, 

Mexico, MO 

• Evolution et Systématique 

Laboratoire ES, 

University of Paris Sud, Orsay, FR 

• Facultad de Agronomía, 

Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, 

La Paz, BO 

• Fisiologia Vegetal, 

Universitat Jaume, Castillon, ES 

• Genetics Research Unit, United 

States Department of Agriculture, 

Geneva, US 

• Institut de Biologie Physicochimique, 

Centre national de la 

recherche scientifique, Paris, FR 

• Institut de Chimie Moléculaire, 

Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, FR 

• Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia, 

Centre Universidad de Lleida, ES 

• Institut für Biowissenschaften, 


• Institut für Umweltforschung, 

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische 

Hochschule, Aachen, DE 

• Institute for Wetland and Water 

Research, Radboud 

University Nijmegen, NL 

• Institute of Biochemistry and 

Biology, University of Potsdam, DE 

• Institute of Biology, 

University of Tromsø, NO 

• Institute of Botany, Slovak 

Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, SK 

• Institute of Molecular Biology, 

Academia Sinica, Taipei, TW 

• Institute of Plant Protection, 

Chinese Academy of Agricultural 

Sciences, Beijing, CN 

• Istituto di Ingegneria Biomedica 

del CNR, Università di Padova, IT 

• Laboratorio Ecotono, National 

University of Comahue, Bariloche, AR 

• Laboratory for Electron Microscopy, 

University of Chicago, US 

• Legume Gene Technology 

Research, Commonwealth 

Scientific and Industrial Research 

Organisation, Canberra, AU 

• Lehrstuhl für Biologie, Technische 

Universität Kaiserslautern, DE 

• Lehrstuhl für Pharmazeutische 

Biologie, Universität Würzburg, DE 

• Lethbridge Research Center, 

Agriculture and Agrifood Canada, CA 

• Molekulare Biotechnologie, 

University of Bonn, DE 

• Molekulare Physiologie, 

Max-Planck Institute of Molecular 

Plant Physiology, Golm, DE 

• Mycorrhiza, Institute of Botany, 

Pruhonic, CZ 

• National Research Laboratory 

of Plant Functional Genomics, 

Pohang University of Science 

and Technology, KP 

• Physical Oceanography Research 

Division, Scripps Institution of 

Oceanography, San Diego, US 

• Physical Oceanography Research 

Division, University of Davis, 

California, US 

• Plant Energy Biology Institute, 

University of Western Australia, 

Perth, AU 

• Research Unit Mt Albert, 

HortResearch,Auckland, NZ 


Interdisciplinary 

and applied research 

The NCCR Plant Survival, 

initiated in 2001, enabled 

the creation of an interdisciplinary 

network of skilled 

scientists around the general 

theme of plant survival. 

In 2012, two research 

teams were honoured by 

publications in Nature and 

Science. The first one is the 

group led by Enrico Martinoia, 

Professor of plant 

physiology at the University 

of Zurich. Their discovery 

deals with mycorrhiza, 

a symbiosis between 

plants and soil fungi, which 

increases the plants’ access 

to water and nutrients. 

The second topic refers to a 

research carried out by the 

group of Antoine Guisan 

at the University of Lausanne 

in collaboration with 

researchers from the ETH 

Zurich and from the University 

of Hawaii (USA). 

With the analysis of fifty invasive 

plant species introduced 

worldwide, this study 

confirms that it is possible, 

for the most part, to predict 

the regions of potential 

invasion based on the 

principle of climatic niche 

conservation. “This study 

offers the strongest empirical 

evidence to date that climate 

is a determining factor 

in the geographic distribution 

of invasive plants”, 

states Antoine Guisan. 

In the same field, the European 

research organisation 

COST has given in Summer 

2012 the green light to a 

large project aimed at controlling 

ambrosia – one of 

the most notorious invasive 

plants. With the support 

of NCCR Plant Survival 

and under the direction of 

Professor Heinz Müller- 

Schärer, a coordinated action 

against this weed will 

be carried out in collaboration 

with Urs Schaffner at 

CABI Delémont. Entitled 

SMARTER (Sustainable 

management of Ambrosia 

artemisiifolia in Europe), 

this COST action will integrate 

new control strategies, 

such as biological 

pest control and promoting 

strongly competitive plants. 

It is also worth mentioning 

the work of Brigitte 

Mauch-Mani and her team 

the University of Neuchâtel 

published in the journal 

Plant Physiology. This 

study highlighted an epigenetic 

phenomenon of 

heritable disease resistance. 

The researchers have 

shown for the first time that 

stimulating a plant’s natural 

defences also increases 

the capacity for disease 

resistance in its offspring. 

The substances used for 

stimulating the defences 

are harmless to the environment 

and easy to apply. 

Technology transfer 

The technology transfer activities 

linked to the NCCR 

aim at consolidating what 

has been achieved by the 

partners in the previous 

two phases, at continuing 

to raise awareness of the 

NCCR partners to intellectual 

property issues and at 

ensuring better exploitation 

of current projects. Particular 

emphasis is put on 

exploiting the results and 

the intellectual property 

through an efficient policy 

of licensing to or partnering 

with third parties. For the 

Phase III the organisation 

of the TT activities is taken 

over by the Technology 

Transfer Office of the University 

of Neuchâtel in collaboration 

with the NCCR 

coordination. Coordination 

with technology transfer 

offices of the partner institutions 

is encouraged. 

Public relations 

More than 136 quotations 

in the media (web, written 

press, radio and TV) on 

activities, results and interviews 

of members of the 

NCCR Plant Survival have 

been recorded in 2011. We 

note very regular quotations 

of our research activities 

along the year. We got 

a worldwide success with 

the story about the identification 

of genes controlling 

the accumulation of arsenic 

in plants. This success 

is explained by the great 

concern that raises the pollution 

of drinking water by 

arsenic in developing countries, 

and by the fact that 

this research is the result 

of an international collaboration 

from South Korea, 

USA and Switzerland. In 

addition, we noticed 7 invitations 

of NCCR Plant 

Survival members by the 

media as experts in their 

research field. These kinds 

of interventions contribute 

to the fame of our research 

network. 

Doctoral programme 

The financing and management 

of the doctoral 

programme have now been 

taken over by the University 

of Neuchâtel, becoming one 

of the regular inter-university 

programmes within 

the CUSO. Mobility grants 

are awarded to allow Ph.D. 

students to visit and work 

in other laboratories and 

to present their research at 

international congresses. 

Equal opportunities 

A network of Equal Opportunity 

Offices at the Swiss 

universities currently provides 

optimal conditions 

for female scientists of our 

NCCR to pursue an academic 

career. In Neuchâtel, 

the Equal Opportunity 

Office offers scholarships 

and mentoring programs, 

and promotes part-time 

employment opportunities. 

The advancement of women 

in academic careers is supported 

through courses and 

workshops, while different 

programmes and a nursery 

grants family life and career 

balance for all NCCR 

scientists. 


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SNSF funding 1 2 265 000 2 215 000 1 600 000 800 000 6 880 000 33 


institution 2 589 621 1 191 778 773 849 428 883 2 984 131 15 


participants 

2 656 038 3 192 670 3 163 895 0 9 012 603 44 

Third-party funding 3 17 812 1 388 824 296 000 0 1 702 636 8 

Total 5 528 471 7 988 272 5 833 744 1 228 883 20 579 370 100 

Personnel 4 

1 


2 


3 



4 


5 


6 


7 

This table displays the major indicators in knowledge and technology transfer; other data is available as well (see text on “achievements”). 

The output data of NCCRs differ considerably according to disciplinary cultures. 

8 


9 





Ghisalba Oreste, Prof. (Chair) 

Chen Peter, Prof. 

Harr Jost, Dr. 

Lambers Hans, Prof. 

Métraux Jean-Pierre, Prof. 

Pickett John, Prof. 

Scheel Dierk, Prof. 

Louise E.M. Vet, Prof. 



Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

DE FR NL GB IT 

Management 5.0 5 9 56 7 44 10 2 1 1 0 0 2 






Other staff 5 2 40 3 60 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 

Total 97.00 33 34 64 66 48 15 7 5 3 4 15 


Totals 







TZW Consulting GmbH, Witterswil, CH 

Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, 

University of Western Australia, AU 


Biological Chemistry Div., Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, GB 

Department of Stress and Development Biology, Halle, DE 

Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), NL 



• School of Biological and 

Conservation Sciences, 

University of KwaZulu-Nata, 

Pietermaritzburg, ZA 

• School of Crystallography, 

University of London, GB 

• Technische Umweltchemie, 

Umweltforschungszentrum 

Leipzig-Halle GmbH, DE 

• Trait Fonctionnels Végétaux 

et Dynamique des Ecosystèmes 

Alpin, Laboratoire d’Ecologie 

Alpine, Grenoble, FR 

• Umweltforschungszentrum 

Leipzig-Halle GmbH, DE 

• Unité de Phytopharmacie et 

Médiateurs Chimiques, Institut 

National de la Recherche Agronomique, 

Versailles-Grignon, FR 

• Unité Mixte de Recherche, Plante- 

Microbe-Environnement (PME), 

Institut National de la Recherche 

Agronomique, Dijon, FR 

• University of Athens, Europe 

and South America Consortium, 

Athens, GR 


• Affymetrix, Inc., Santa Clara, US 

• AgriSense-BCS Limited, 

Pontypridd, GB 

• BASF Chemical Company, 

Ludwigshafen, DE 

• Bio-Protection & Development 

on Vineyards, Bettembourg, LU 

• BIOREBA AG, Reinach, CH 

• Burri Agricide, Ligerz, CH 

• Carlsberg Research Center, 

Copenhagen, DK 

• Cosmotec SA, 

Collombey-Le-Grand, CH 

• Delley Semences et Plantes SA, 

Delley, CH 

• Diethelm Keller Siber Hegner 

DKSH Ltd Switzerland, Zurich, CH 

• DuPont-Pioneer Hi-Bred, 

Wilmington, DE 

• ECOGENICS GmbH, Zurich, CH 

• Fenaco, UFA-Samen Winterthur, 

Winterthur, CH 

• Givaudan, Dübendorf, CH 

• Isagro S.p.A., Milano, IT 

• Kael Cosmetic SA, San Francisco, US 

• MONSANTO Company, Ecological 

Technology Center, St. Louis, US 

• NimbleGen Systems Inc., 

Madison, US 

• Norddeutsche Euro Grass Breeding 

GmbH & Co. KG, Asendorf, DE 

• Norddeutsche Pflanzenzucht Hans- 

Georg Lembke KIG, Holtsee, DE 

• Omya AG Agro, Oftringen, CH 

• SMart Nose Ltd., Marin, CH 

• Suterra LLC, Bend, US 

• Xirrus, Zürich. CH 

Others 

• Amt für Landwirtschaft, 

Landschafts- und Bodenkultur 

Offenburg, Offenburg, DE 

• Center for Applied Biosciences, 

Delémont, CH 

• CimArk SA, Sion, CH 

• Consortium Biodiversity 

Exploratories, Potsdam, DE 

• DLR-Rheinpfalz Phytomedizin / 

Biotechnologischer 

Pflanzenschutz, Neustadt, DE 

• Edmund Mach Foundation, San 

Michele all’Adige, IT 

• Office cantonal d’agro-écologie, 

Service de l’Agriculture, 

Châteauneuf, CH 

• RACINES, Geneva, CH 


Climate Variability, 

Predictability and Climate Risks 

NCCR Climate 




April 1, 2001 


Director 

Stocker Thomas, Prof. 

stocker@climate.unibe.ch 


Stephan Gunter, Prof. gunter. 

stephan@vwi.unibe.ch 

NCCR Executive Director 

Grosjean Martin, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)31 631 31 47 

martin.grosjean@oeschger.unibe.ch 

Science Officer 

Riffler Michael, Dr. 

phone: + 41 (0)31 631 31 46 

michael.riffler@oeschger.unibe.ch 


Meuli Kaspar, Mr. 

phone: + 41 (0)31 631 31 49 

kaspar.meuli@oeschger.unibe.ch 

Knowledge and 



Event Manager 

Wälti Monika, Mrs. 

phone: + 41 (0)31 631 31 45 

monika.waelti@oeschger.unibe.ch 

Administrative Manager 

Möhl Margret, Mrs. 

phone: + 41 (0)31 631 31 45 

margret.moehl@oeschger.unibe.ch 

IT-Experts 

Pletscher Martin 

phone: +41 (0) 31 631 88 84 

martin.pletscher@oeschger.unibe.ch 

Ferrante Basilio, Mr. 

phone: + 41 (0)31 631 31 46 

basil@giub.unibe.ch 





Research 

Work Package Reconstructing 

and modelling past drought 

variability 

Leader: Raible C. 

MONALISA-3 Modelling 

and Reconstruction of North 

Atlantic Climate System 

Variability 

Head: Raible C. 

Stocker T.F. 

PALVAREX-3 PALeoclimate 

VARiability and EXtreme 

Events 

H: Grosjean M. 

Brönnimann S., Schwikowski M. 

DE-TREE Drought effects 

and PDSI reconstruction from 

Southern and Central European 

trees 

H: Frank D.C. 

Work Package Future Climate 

Leader: Schär C. 

HYCLIM Intensification 

of the water cycle: Scenarios, 

processes and extremes 

H: Wild M. 

Schär C. 

CCC Global climate processes: 

role of cirrus clouds for 

present and future climate 

H: Lohmann U. 

Peter T. 

PRECLIM-3 Probabilistic 

climate change scenarios for 

mean and extremes in the 

Alpine region 

H: Appenzeller C. 

Knutti R. 

Work Package Ecosystem 

Impacts and Adaptation 

Leader: J. Fuhrer 

PLANT/SOIL-3 Drought effects 

on Swiss grasslands and 

adapted plant mixtures as 

management options under 

changing climate conditions 

H: Feller U. 

Buchmann N. 

AGRISK Climate change and 

agricultural production risks 

H: Calanca P. 

Fuhrer J., Dumondel M. 

ECOWAT Impacts of changing 

drought conditions on catchment 

ecology and water cycle 

H: Bugmann H. 

Körner C., Seneviratne S.I. 

Work Package Integrated 

assessment analysis of global 

climate change, economy and 

society 

Leader: G. Stephan 

CITEL Climate change 

and international trade 

from an economic and 

legal perspective 

H: Cottier T. 

R-3 Climate vulnerability, risk 

assessment and management 

in a Post-Kyoto World 

H: Stephan G. 

Turton H. 

MIADAC-3 Modelling Climate 

Change Policies: Mitigation, 

Adaptation, and Acceptance 

H: Thalmann Ph. 

Integrated Projects and 

Fast Track Studies 

CLER Climate Lessons from 

radiocarbon data 

H: Joos F. 

SOLAR Solar Forcing 

and Climate Change of the 

last 1000 years 

H: Beer J. 

Programmes 

Yearly Summer School 


PhD student meetings 

H: Riffler M. 

Work shops co-organized 

with ProClim 


Address 


Universität Bern 

Zähringerstrasse 25 

3012 Bern 

phone: + 41 (0)31 631 31 45 

fax: + 41 (0)31 631 43 38 

nccr-climate@oeschger.unibe.ch 

Web Address 

www.nccr-climate.unibe.ch 


Topics 

Comprehensive insight and 

sound understanding of 

1) natural climate variability, 

modelling and 

high re solution climate reconstruction 

over the last 

1000 years, 2) global and 

regio nal climate processes, 

seasonal and inter-annual 

climate variability and 

more accurate predictions, 

including extreme events, 

3) assess implications of climate 

variability and change 


Appenzeller Christof, PD Dr. 

Beer Jürg, Prof. 

Beniston Martin, Prof. 

Brönnimann Stefan, Prof. 

Buchmann Nina, Prof. 

Bugmann Harald, Prof. 

Calanca Pierluigi, Dr. 

Cottier Thomas, Prof. 

Dumondel Michel, Dr. 

Feller Urs, Prof. 

Frank David, Dr. 

Fuhrer Jürg, Prof. 


Joos Fortunat, Prof. 

Knutti Reto, Prof. 

Körner Christian, Prof. 

Lohmann Ulrike, Prof. 

Peter Thomas, Prof. 

Raible Christoph, PD Dr. 

Schär Christoph, Prof. 

Schwikowski Margit, Prof. 

Seneviratne Sonia, Prof. 

for ecosystems and to evaluate 

possible adaptive strategies 

for the management 

of forests and agriculture 

and, 4) potential perspectives 

for regio nal and global 

post-Kyoto climate policies, 

vulnerability of regional 

and global economies to 

the adaptation to global 

climate change. The NCCR 

Climate is a research network 

of institutions within 

Switzerland and collaborates 

with na tional and 

international programmes 

(ProClim, WCRP-CLIVAR, 

IGBP, UNFCCC, IPCC). 

The NCCR Climate commits 

itself to a firm effort in 

education, to knowledge 

transfer and interaction 

with admi nistration, politics, 

the pri vate sector and 

the public. The NCCR Climate 

is in the last phase 

(2009-2013). 

MeteoSchweiz, Zürich 

EAWAG, Dübendorf 

Climate Research Group, Université de Genève 

Geographisches Institut, Universität Bern 

Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, ETH Zürich 

Waldökologie, ETH Zürich 

ART, Reckenholz 

World Trade Institute, Universität Bern 

Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zurich 

Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Universität Bern 

WSL, Birmensdorf 

ART, Reckenholz 

Geographisches Institut, Universität Bern 

Abteilung Klima und Umweltphysik, Universität Bern 

Institut für Atmosphäre und Klima, ETH Zürich 

Botanisches Institut, Universität Basel 



Abt. Klima und Umweltphysik, Universität Bern 


Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen 



Programmes 

• ACQWA (FP7) 

• AGWAM 

• ALARM (FP6) 

• AMIP II 

• AustroClim 

• CarboEurope-IP (FP6) 

• CARBOOCEAN IP (FP6) 

• CARMA 

• CIRCE (FP6) 

• ClimPol 

• COSMO-LEPS 

• COST 725 

• COST 733 

• DILPA 

• ECOCHANGE (FP6) 

• ECSN 

• ENSEMBLES (FP6) 

• ERA-CLIM 

• ERMITAGE 

• EURO-AGRIWAT (COST ES1106) 

• FasMeF 

• FUPSOL 

• GEOMON (FP6) 

• GrassGas 

• IGBP – PAGES 

• Lignin Turnover 

• MAIOLICA 

• MedCLIVAR 

• NDACC 

• NICOLA 

• SoilGas 

• VALUE (COST ES1102) 

• WCRP-BSRN 

• WCRP-CLIVAR 

• WMO-LRF 


• Agenzia Regionale Prevenzione 

e Ambiente dell’Emilia Romagna 

(ARPA), Bologna, IT 

• Alfred Wegener Institut, 

Bremerhaven, DE 

• British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, GB 

• Canadian Institute for Climate 

Sciences, University of Quebec, 

Montreal, CA 

• Center for Environmental, 

Prediction, Rutgers University, 

New Brunswick, US 

• Centre for Global Environmental 

Research, National Institute for 

Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, JP 

• Centre for Marine and Climate 

Research, University of 

Hamburg, DE 

• Climate and Global Dynamics 

Division, National Center for 

Atmospheric Research, Boulder, US 

• Climate Research Unit, University 

of East Anglia, Norwich, GB 

• Climatic Change and Climate 

Impacts, University of Geneva, 

Geneva, CH 

• Danish Meteorological Institute, 


• Department Climate, Air and 

Energy, Planbureau voor de 

Leefomgeving, The Hague, NL 

• Département des Sciences 

du Milieu et de l’Aménagement 

du Territoire, Université Catholique 

de Louvain, BE 

• Département Energie et Politiques 

de l’Environnement du LEPII, 

Université Pierre Mendès-France, 

Grenoble, FR 

• Department of Astrophysics and 

Atmospheric, The Complutense 

University of Madrid, ES 

• Department of Atmospheric 

and Oceanic Sciences, University 

of California, Los Angeles, US 

• Department of Atmospheric 

Sciences, University 

of Washington, Seattle, US 

• Department of Earth Science, 

University of Bergen, NO 

• Department of Environmental 

Sciences, University of Milano, IT 

• Department of Finance Decision, 

Hong Kong Baptist University, CN 


• Department of Forestry and 

Natural Resources, Purdue 

University, West Lafayette, US 


San Diego State University, US 

• Department of Geosciences, 

University of Massachusetts, 

Amherst, US 

• Department of Meteorology, 

University of Reading, GB 

• Department of Physics, 

University of Oxford, GB 

• Department of Plant Biology, 

University of Illinois, Urbana, US 

• Deutsches Institut für 

Wirtschaftsforschung, Humboldt- 

Universität zu Berlin, DE 

• Ecosystem Modelling and 

Biodiversity Studies Group, 

Lund University, SE 

• Energy-Economic-Environment 

Modeling Laboratory, Institute of 

Communication and Computer 

Systems, Athens, GR 

• Energy and Climate Change, 

Centre for European Policy Studies, 

Brussels, BE 

• Environmental Change Institute, 


• European Centre for Medium 

Range Weather Forecast, 

Reading, GB 

• Fachbereich Volkswirtschaftslehre, 

Universität Trier, DE 

• Fondazione Eni Enrico Matte, 

Milano, IT 

• Fraunhofer-Institut für 

System- und Innovationsforschung, 

Karlsruhe, DE 

• Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências, 

Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, PT 

• Geographical Institute, 

University of Mainz, DE 

• Geology and Geophysics 

Department, Woods Hole 

Oceanographic Institution, US 

• GKSS Research Centre Geesthach, DE 

• Groupe d’Etudes et de Recherche 

en Analyse des Décisions 

(GERARD), Mc Gill University, 

Montréal, CA 

• Hadley Centre for Climate 

Prediction and Research, Exeter, GB 

• Institut für Energiewirtschaft und 

Rationelle Energieanwendung, 

Universität Stuttgart, DE 

• Institut für Umweltphysik, 


• Institut National sur la 

Recherche Agronomique, 

Clermont-Ferrand, FR 

• Institute of Geography, Justus- 

Liebig-University Giessen, DE 

• Institute for Energy Environment 

Economy, Tsinghua University, 

Beijing, CN 


University of Augsburg, DE 



• Institute of Geophysics, 


• Institute of Meteorology and 

Geophysics, University of Vienna, 

Vienna, AT 

• Institute of Soil Science, 

TU Berlin, DE 

• International Institute for 

Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), 

Laxenburg, AT 

• International Pacific Research 

Center, University of Honolulu, US 

• International Research Institute 

for Climate Prediction, Columbia 


• Joint Research Center, Ispra, IT 

• Judge Business School, 


• Laboratoire de Glaciologie et 

Géophysique de l’Environnement, 

Grenoble, FR 

• Laboratoire des Sciences du 

Climat et de l’Environnement, 

Gif-sur-Yvette, FR 

Climate Variability, 

Predictability and Climate Risks 



The SNSF Review Panel 

stated in the Assessment 

Report 2004: “The NCCR 

Climate is unique in its 

interdisciplinary focus, 

not just for Switzerland or 

Europe, but globally”. 

Building on firm structural 

and institutional foundations, 

the NCCR Climate 

network led to signifi 

cant achievements in 

four areas: distinct scientific 

impact, international 

leadership through networks, 

sustained education 

at postgraduate level, 

and extended public relations. 

The Graduate School 

“Climate Sciences” (M.Sc. 

and Ph.D. University of 

Bern) concerted with the 

M.Sc. “Atmospheric and 

Climate Sciences” (S-EN 

ETH) opened in 2006/2007. 

Stephan Gunter, Prof. 

Stocker Thomas, Prof. 

Thalmann Philippe, Prof. 

Turton Hal, Dr. 

Wild Martin, Dr. 

Wokaun Alexander, Prof. 

Science 

The NCCR Climate shaped 

the profile of Swiss climate 

research through collaborative 

novel and timely 

scientific contributions 

with a high impact. Examples 

are the reconstruction 

of temporally highlyresolved 

European temperature 

and precipitation 

fields back to AD 1000 or 

the assessment of extreme 

climate such as the European 

summer 2003 being 

the hottest of the last 

500 years. Simulations 

with different climate 

models show that about 

every second summer can 

be as warm or warmer 

in 2070 - 2100 than the 

summer 2003. With a focus 

on Switzerland, a set of 

scenarios for severe 

climate events (heat-waves, 

wind, drought, heavy precipitation, 

flood) has been 

produced, and the impact 

on society, agri culture and 

forests has been assessed. 

Information about extreme 

events in a changing climate 

is vital for risk assessment 

in financial business 

(e.g., investment and insurance). 

Operational tools for 

the climate forecast of up to 

six months were developed, 

novel ways of coupling 

climate and economic models 

were explored, and 

future ways of the Kyoto 

process were studied. 

Evidently, a hierarchy 

of state-of-the-art models 

(global and regional 

Volkswirtschaftliches Institut, Universität Bern 

Abt. Klima- und Umweltphysik, Universität Bern 

Lab. de recherches en économie et management 

de l’environnement, EPF Lausanne 




cli mate models, regional 

and local impact models) 

and large observational 

datasets are a prerequisite 

to address such targets. 

Other Aspects 

NCCR Climate researchers 

take leadership in the 

UNFCC, IPCC process and 

in international programmes 

(IGBP, WCRP, WMO, 

ERA). The NCCR Climate 

Summer School is a highly 

competitive internation 

-ally recognised platform 

for young scientists and 

attracts distinguished 

teachers. The NCCR Climate 

works closely with 

stakeholders, governmental 

agencies and the private 

sector. Public interest in 

NCCR Climate research is 

unprecedented. In 2007 the 

NCCR Climate had its first 

major structural impact: the 

University of Bern inaugurated 

the Oeschger Centre 

for Climate Change Research! 

In 2008 the Center 

for Climate System Modelling 

C2SM was inaugurated 

at ETH Zurich. 


www.nccr-climate.unibe.ch 




SNSF funding 1 800 000 1 700 000 1 600 000 400 000 5 500 000 24 


institution 1 345 821 329 677 329 324 329 499 1 334 321 6 


participants 

5 328 392 4 498 873 4 247 579 1 046 672 15 121 516 65 


Total 8 074 201 6 628 624 6 394 947 2 141 671 23 239 443 100 

Personnel 2 

1 


2 


3 


4 


5 



6 


7 





Chen Peter, Prof. (Chair) 

Böhringer Christoph, Prof. 

Bradley Raymond, Prof. 

Cramer Wolfgang, Prof. 

Endres Alfred, Prof. 

Gregory Peter, Prof. 

Hartmann Dennis, Prof. 

Höppe Peter, Prof. 

Varone Frédéric, Prof. 

Van den Bergh Hubert, Prof. 



Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

DE FR AT CA IT 

Management 1.8 3 2 29 5 71 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 






Other staff 11 8 80 2 20 8 2 0 0 0 0 0 

Total 125.80 49 38 81 62 77 30 5 4 3 3 11 


Totals 






Department of Economics, Carl von Ossietzky 

University Oldenburg, DE 

Department of Geoscience, University of Massachussetts, US 

IMBE, Aix-en-Provence, FR 

Fernuniversität Hagen, Hagen, DE 

East Malling Research, Kent, UK 

Dep. of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, US 

Fachbereich GeoRisikoForschung/Umweltmanagement, 

Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft, DE 





• Laboratory of Paleobotany 

and Palynology, 

University of Utrecht, NL 

• Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, 

University of Arizona, Tucson, US 

• Massachusetts Institute 

of Technology, Cambridge, US 

• Max Planck Institute 

for Biogeochemistry, Jena, DE 

• Max Planck Institute 

for Meteorology, Hamburg, DE 

• National Centre for Atmospheric 

Research, Boulder, US 

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, Boulder, US 

• Natural Resource Ecology 

Laboratory, Colorado State 

University, Fort Collins, US 

• Physical Sciences Division, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 

Boulder, US 

• Potsdam Institute for Climate 

Impact Research, DE 

• Public System Group, 

Indian Institute of Management, 

Ahmedabad, IN 

• School of Computing, National 

University of Singapore, SG 

• School of Environmental Sciences, 

University of East Anglia, 

Norwich, GB 

• Systems Analysis Group, Research 

Institute of Innovative Technology 

for the Earth, Kyoto, JP 

• U.S. Arid-Land Agricultural 

Research Center, Maricopa, US 


• BKW FMB Energie AG, Bern, CH 

• Enerdata, Grenoble, FR 

• KANLO Consultants, Lyon, FR 

• Ordecsys Sàrl, 

Chêne-Bourgeries, CH 

• Swisselectric, Bern, CH 

• Swiss Reinsurance Company, 

Zürich, CH 

• Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd, 

Zürich, CH 

Others 

• Beratendes Organ für Fragen der 

Klimaänderung (OcCC), Bern, CH 

• Bundesamt für Energie, Bern, CH 

• Bundesamt für Landestopographie, 

Wabern, CH 

• Bundesamt für Umwelt, Bern, CH 

• Bundesamt für Wasser 

und Geologie, Bern, CH 

• Commissariat à l’Energie 

Atomique, Toulouse, FR 

• Dendrolabor Wallis, Brig, CH 

• Eidgenössisches Departement 

für auswärtige Angelegenheiten, 

Bern, CH 

• European Organisation for the 

Exploitation of Meteorological 

Satellites, Darmstadt, DE 

• German Advisory Council 

on Global Change, Berlin, DE 

• Institut Français des Relations 

Internationales, Paris, FR 

• Intergovernmental Panel 

on Climate Change, Geneva, CH 

• International Atomic Energy 

Acency, Wien, AT 

• MeteoFrance, Toulouse, FR 

• MeteoSwiss, Zürich, CH 

• Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, GB 

• National Development and Reform 

Commission, Beijing, China 

• Past Global Changes of IGBP, 

Bern, CH 

• ProClim Forum for Climate, 

Bern, CH 

• Schweizerischer Erdbebendienst, 

Zurich, CH 

• Wissenschaftlicher Beirat 

der Bundesregierung Globale 

Umweltveränderungen (WBGU), 

Berlin, DE 

• World Energy Council, London, GB 

• World Trade Organisation, 

Geneva, CH 


Materials with Novel Electronic Properties 

– Basic Science and Applications 

NCCR MaNEP 




July 1, 2001 


Director 

Fischer Øystein, Prof. 

phone: +41 (0)22 379 62 70 

Oystein.fischer@unige.ch 

Deputy Directors 

Renner Christoph, Prof. 

phone: +41 (0)22 379 35 44 

christoph.renner@unige.ch 

Van der Marel Dirk, Prof. 

phone: +41 (0)22 379 62 34 

dirk.vandermarel@unige.ch 

Scientific Managers 

Berthod Christophe, Dr. 

phone: + 41 (0)22 379 68 95 

Christophe.berthod@unige.ch 

Favre-Quattropani Lidia, Dr. 

phone: + 41 (0)22 379 62 93 

Lidia.quattropani@unige.ch 


Bagnoud Marie, Mrs. 

phone: + 41 (0)22 379 62 18 

Marie.bagnoud@unige.ch 


Transfer 

Cors Jorge, Dr. 

ad interim 

phone: +41 (0)22 379 62 19 

jorge.cors@unige.ch 


Berthod Christophe, Dr. 


Favre-Quattropani Lidia, Dr. 

Computer 

and Internet Resources 

Maggio-Aprile Ivan, Dr. 

phone: + 41 (0)22 379 61 13 

Ivan.maggio-aprile@unige.ch 

Communication 

Bonito Aleman Adriana, Mrs. 

phone: + 41 (0)22 379 64 99 

adriana.aleman@unige.ch 

Address 


Section de physique 


24, quai E.- Ansermet 


phone: + 41 (0)22 379 30 13 

fax: + 41 (0)22 379 35 89 

manep@unige.ch 

Web Address 

www.manep.ch 

Research 

Novel phenomena at interfaces 

and in superlattices 

Head: Triscone J.-M. 

Participating members: 

Aebi Ph., Bernhard Ch., 

Giamarchi T., Morenzoni E., 

Morpurgo A., Niedermayer Ch., 

Paruch P., Triscone J.-M., 

Willmott Ph. 

Materials for future electronics 

Head: Morpurgo A. 


Büttiker M., Giamarchi T., 

Morpurgo A., Paruch P., 

Sigrist M., Triscone J.-M., 

van der Marel D. 

Electronic materials for energy 

systems and other applications 

Head: Fischer Ø. 


Abplanalp M., Aebi Ph., Cors J., 

Decroux M., Eckert D., 

Fischer Ø., Flükiger R., Hulliger 

J., Kenzelmann M., Patzke G., 

Renner Ch., de Rooij N., 

Senatore C., Triscone G., 

Triscone J.-M., Weidenkaff A., 

Yvon K. 

This project is carried out with 

six participating industries. 

Electronic properties 

of oxide superconductors 

and related materials 

Head: van der Marel D. 


Baeriswyl D., Batlogg B., 

Degiorgi L., Fischer Ø., 

Georges A., Giamarchi T., 

Giannini E., Karpinski J., 

Keller H., Mesot J. Rice T.M., 

Sigrist M., van der Marel D. 

Novel electronic phases 

in strongly correlated electron 

systems 

Head: Sigrist M. 


Baeriswyl D., Blatter G., 

Forró L., Giannini E., Jaccard D., 

Kenzelmann M., Sigrist M., 

Troyer M., van der Marel D. 

Magnetism and competing 

interactions in bulk materials 

Head: Mila F. and Zheludev A. 


Giamarchi T., Kenzelmann M., 

Kollath C., Mesot J., Mila F., 

Morenzoni E., Ott H.-R., Rønnow 

H. M., Rüegg C., Staub U., 

Troyer M., Zheludev A. 

Electronic materials 

with reduced dimensionality 

Head: Forró L. 


Aebi Ph., Degiorgi L., Forró L., 

Giamarchi T., Grioni M., 

Renner C. 

Cold atomic gases as 

novel quantum simulators 

for condensed matter 

Head: Giamarchi T. 


Blatter G., Esslinger T., 

Giamarchi T., Gritsev V., 

Kollath C., Mila F., Troyer M. 



Epitaxial Piezoelectric MEMS 

Energy Harvester in a Watch 

System - WATCHERGY 

H: Briand D. 

Surface treatments and 

thin films for micromachining 

electrodes 

H: Cors J. 

Novel nanocomposite 

materials with low ecological 

impact for highcurrent contact 

applications 

H: Giannini E. 

Neutron focusing within 

sample environment 

H: Kenzelmann M. 

Development of YBa 2Cu 30 7-x 

superconducting test coils: 

the path towards allsuperconducting 

magnets 

above 23 .5 T 

H: Senatore C. 

Platforms, 


Industry Network 

Swiss Workshop MaNEP 

«Les Diablerets» 

Winter School MaNEP 

«Saas-Fee» 

MaNEP Mobile 

Post-Doc Program 


MaNEP Summer Internships 

MaNEP Doctoral School 

Forum Members (full members, participating to the research projects) 

Abplanalp Markus, Dr. 

Aebi Philipp, Prof. 

Baeriswyl Dionys, Prof. 

Batlogg Bertram, Prof. 

Baumberger Felix, Prof. 

Bernhard Christian, Prof. 

Blatter Johann W., Prof. 

Büttiker Markus, Prof. 

Cerny Radovan, Prof. 

Decroux Michel, Prof. 

Degiorgi Leonardo, Prof. 

De Rooij Nico, Prof. 

Eckert Daniel, Dr. 

Esslinger Tilman, Prof. 

Fiebig Manfred, Prof. 


Flükiger René, Prof. 

Forró László, Prof. 

Georges Antoine, Prof. 

Giamarchi Thierry, Prof. 

ABB Corporate Research Ltd, Baden-Dättwil 

Département de Physique, Université de Fribourg 


Laboratorium für Festkörperphysik, ETH-Hönggerberg 

Dép. de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université de Genève 

and PSI Villigen, Swiss Light Source 


Institut für Theoretische Physik, ETH-Hönggerberg 

Département de Physique Théorique, Université de Genève 

Laboratoire de Cristallographie, Université de Genève 



SAMLAB, EPFL, Neuchâtel 

Bruker-Biospin, Fällanden 

Institut für Quantenelektronik, ETH-Hönggerberg 

Departement Materialwissenschaft, ETH-Hönggerberg 



Laboratoire de Nanostructures et Nouveaux Matériaux 

Electroniques, EPF Lausanne 




Giannini Enrico, Dr. 

Grioni Marco, Prof. 

Jaccard Didier, Prof. 

Karpinski Janusz, Dr. 

Keller Hugo, Prof. 

Kenzelmann Michel, Dr. 

Kollath Corinna, Prof. 

Mesot Joël, Prof. 

Mila Frédéric, Prof. 

Morenzoni Elvezio, Dr. 

Morpurgo Alberto, Prof. 

Niedermayer Christof, Dr. 

Ott Hans-Rudolf, Prof. 

Paruch Patrycja, Prof. 

Patzke Greta, Prof. 


Rice T. Maurice, Prof. 

Rønnow Henrik, Prof. 

Rüegg Christian, Prof. 

Sigrist Manfred, Prof. 

Spaldin Nicola, Prof. 

Staub Urs, Dr. 

Triscone Gilles, Dr. 

Triscone Jean-Marc, Prof. 

Troyer Matthias, Prof. 

van der Marel Dirk, Prof. 

Weidenkaff Anke, Prof. 

Werner Philipp, Prof. 

Willmott Philip, Prof. 

Yvon Klaus, Prof. 

Zheludev Andrey, Prof. 

Members of the Scientific Committee 

Degiorgi Leonardo, Prof. 


Forró László, Prof. 

Giamarchi Thierry, Prof. 

Mila Frédéric, Prof. 



Sigrist Manfred, Prof. 

Staub Urs, Dr. 

Triscone Jean-Marc, Prof. 

van der Marel Dirk, Prof. 

Zheludev Andrey, Prof. 

Topics 

In the last twenty years, 

numerous new electronic 

materials have been 

discovered with interesting 

and often complex 

crystalline structures and 

outstanding new electronic 

properties. These 

new striking properties are 

found in some magnetic, 

ferroelectric and superconducting 

compounds. All 

these compounds have a 

large potential for applications 

and we believe that 

they will play a key role in 

advanced future electronic 

devices. Among the materials 

displaying these unexpected 

exceptional properties, 

many share in common 

a low dimensionality and a 

low carrier density. Most 

of them are complex oxide 

systems and, in many of 

these materials, electronic 

inter actions play an important 

role making these 

systems very difficult to 

treat theoretically. Another 

characteristic of these systems 

is that they often have 

competing ground states, 

for instance magnetic and 

superconducting, which 

makes them very sensitive 

to many external parameters, 

leading to interesting 

functionalities. In 

MaNEP, the main goals of 

our NCCR are to develop 

a basic understanding of 

these new materials, to 

prepare for their applications, 

and to train young 

scientists in this important 

field for future electronic 

applications. After the end 

of the third phase, these 

topics will be pursued at 

the University of Geneva 

with many of the present 

members of MaNEP. 


Laboratoire de spectroscopie électronique, EPF Lausanne 



Institut für Physik, Universität Zürich 

Laboratory for Developments and Methods, PSI Villigen 


PSI Villigen 

Institut de Physique Théorique, EPF Lausanne 

Laboratory for Muon-Spin Spectroscopy, PSI, Villigen 


Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, PSI Villigen 



Anorganisch Chemisches Institut, Universität Zürich 



Laboratoire de magnétisme quantique, EPF Lausanne 

Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, PSI Villigen and 



Departement Materialwissenschaft, ETH-Hönggerberg 

Swiss Light Source, PSI Villigen 

Hepia, Genève 




Festkörperchemie und Katalyse, EMPA Dübendorf and 

Departement für Chemie und Biochemie, Universität Bern 



Laboratoire de Cristallographie, Université de Genève 




Laboratoire de Nanostructures et Nouveaux Matériaux 

Electroniques, EPF Lausanne 


Institut de Physique Théorique, EPF Lausanne 



Institut für Theoretische Physik, ETH-Hönggerberg, 





Communication 

• 2007: The SupraFête 

to celebrate 20 years 

of high temperature 

superconductors 

• The PhysiScope: 

official inauguration in 2008 

• Movie: “Superconductivity: 

a short story of an enduring 

enigma” 

• Exhibition and brochure 

illustrated by Swiss 

cartoonist “Mix&Remix” 

• Partnerships with CERN: 

open doors, special 

exhibition, conferences 

• 2009: Participation in the 

events of UniGE’s 450th 

anniversary 

• Telecom World 2009: 

• Artistic performances by 

the company Exos using 

superconducting levitation 

(2009, 2010, 2011) 

• 2011: SUPRA100 exhibition 

and documentary around 

a novel sculpture by Etienne 

Krähenbühl at UniMail, 

Geneva 

• 2011: SUPRAQUOI to celebrate 

100 year of the discovery 

of superconductivity 

• 2013: SUPRA100 exhibition 

and documentary at 

the Muséum d’Histoire 

Naturelle, Neuchâtel 

• MaNEP brochures: general 

presentation & KTT 

• Electronic Newsletter 

• Website: regular updates 

and improvements 


Programme 

• CMA (FP6-NMP) 

• EuCARD 

• ISJRP 

• NES (ESF) 

• PNANO-ANR 

• Sinergia research grant - advanced 

thermoelectric oxide materials for 

high temperature applications 

• SSSTC 


• Centre de Recherches sur Tres 

Basses Températures, Grenoble, 

FR 

• Centre for Nanotechnology, 


• Centro Atomico Bariloche, 

Bariloche, AR 

• Chimie du Solide et Inorganique 

Moléculaire, Univ. de Rennes, FR 

• CSIC, Institut de Cienca 

de Materials de Barcelona, 

Bellaterra, ES 

• Condensed Matter Physics and 

Materials Sciences Department, 

Brookhaven National Laboratory, 

New York, US 


Materials with Novel Electronic Properties – 

Basic Science and Applications 


• Condensed Matter Theory Group 

Department of Physics, Boston 

University, Boston, US 

• Departament de Fisica, 

Universitat de les Illes Balears, 

Palma de Mallorca, ES 

• Département de Génie Électrique, 

Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, CA 


University of Aachen, DE 

• Département de Physique 

Thèorique des Matériaux, 

Université de Liège, BE 

• Department of Applied Physics 

and Physics,Yale University, 

New Haven, US 

• Department of Condensed 

Matter Physics,Weizmann 

Institute of Science, Rehovot, IL 

• Department of Physic, European 

Laboratory for Non-Linear 

Spectroscopy, Firenze, IT 

• Department of Physics and 

Astronomy, University of 

Rochester, US 


Institute for Pure and Applied 

Physical 

Sciences, University of California 

Los Angeles, San Diego, US 

• Department of Physics Solid State 

Theory, Lund University, SE 

• Department of Physics, Louisiana 

State University, Baton Rouge, US 


Stanford University, Stanford, US 


University La Sapienza, Rome, IT 


University of Michigan, US 

• Dept. of Applied Physics and 

Physics, Yale University, New 

Haven, US 

• Dipartimento di Fisica, 

Università di Genova, IT 

• Ecole Superieure d’Ingénieurs 

d’Annecy, Laboratoire 

d’instrumentation et des Matériaux, 

Université de Savoie, FR 

• Elettra Synchrotron Light 

Laboratory, AREA Science 

Park,Trieste, IT 

• Faculty of Chemistry, Karlsruhe 

Institute of Technology, DE 

• Horology, TIMELAB, Geneva, CH 

• Institut Franche Comté 

Electronique Mécanique 

Thermique et 

Optique - Sciences et Technologies 

(FEMTO), Laboratoire de 

Physique et de Métrologie de, 

Besançon, FR 

• Institut für Festkörperphysik, 

Technische Universität Wien, AT 

• Institut für physikalische Chemie, 

Universität Wien,AT 

• Institut für Theoretische Physik 

III, Universität Stuttgart, DE 

• Institut Néel, CNRS, Grenoble, FR 

• Institute for Physics, 

University of Augsburg, DE 

• Institute for Planetary Research, 

German Aerospace Center, 

Berlin, DE 

• Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 

University of Kiel, DE 

• Institute of Micro and Nano 

Electronic Systems, 

University of Karlsruhe, DE 


Science 

The scientific activities of 

MaNEP phase III are organized 

around eight projects. 

The idea is to centre our efforts 

on the key questions in 

the area of MaNEP. Project 

1, “Novel phenomena at interfaces 

and in superlattices” 

wants to demonstrate novel 

functionalities at oxide and organic 

interfaces. The specific 

aim is the discovery, understanding, 

and control of novel 

properties at artificially engineered 

interfaces. In Project 

2, “Materials for future electronics”, 

electronic devices 

and nanostructures for the 

investigation of materials with 

novel electronic prop-erties 

will be used. The two main 

classes of materials addressed 

are heterostructures of transition 

metal oxides and carbonbased 

materials. New collaborations 

with the industry have 

started in the frame of Project 

3, “Electronic materials for 

energy systems and other applications”. 

They are based 

on technologies developed in 

MaNEP phases I and II. Project 

4, “Electronic properties 

of oxide superconductors and 

related materials”, focuses 

on the microscopic origin of 

superconductivity and other 

states of matter with which it 

competes. Project 5, “Novel 

electronic phases in strongly 

correlated electron systems”, 

complements Project 4 with 

work on the wide class of 

materials exhibiting special 

properties due to the presence 

of strong local correlation 

between the position and 

the motion of electrons. The 

goal of Project 6, “Magnetism 

and competing interactions in 

bulk materials”, is to investigate 

a panoply of remarkable 

phenomena due to conflicts 

and competition between 

various degrees of freedom of 

the electrons. The leitmotif for 

Project 7, “Electronic materials 

with reduced dimensionality” 

is based on the fact that lowdimensional 

systems have 

features which are absent or 

less expressed in 3D materials, 

such as spin-charge separation 

or strong fluctuations. 

The aim of Project 8, “Cold 

atomic gases as novel quantum 

simulators for condensed 

matter”, is to use cold atoms to 

realize model systems with an 

unprecedented level of control 

and tunability, allowing 

many issues pertinent to the 

field of strong correlations to 

be tested. 

Know-how and 

technology transfer 

MaNEP has set-up several 

collaborations with industry 

and the HES-Geneva in different 

domains where its skills 

and knowledge are needed. 

They are carried out within 

project 3 described above. A 

first spin-off company “PHA- 

SIS” is active in the field of 

thin film fabrication and built 

on know-how developed in 

MaNEP. MaNEP is also the 

originator of a project of reinforced 

collaboration between 

the Office de Promotion des 

Industries et des Technologies 

(OPI), the HES-Geneva 

and the University of Geneva. 

Education and 

advancement of women 

Having co-organised a summer 

school with PSI in 2002 in 

Zuoz, MaNEP organized two 

successful summer schools 

(2004, 2006) and three winter 

schools (2009, 2011, 2013) at 

Saas-Fee. About 70 students 

attended lectures given by international 

experts. Many students 

were MaNEP doctoral 

students, but the school also 

enrolled students from other 

countries. 

The MaNEP doctoral program 

was launched at the University 

of Geneva and the first 

courses began in autumn 2008. 

Since 2004, MaNEP has organized 

summer internships 

for female students, giving 

the opportunity to integrate 

research groups at the different 

universities and federal 

institutes in MaNEP. These 

internships are highly rated 

by the participants. A survey 

prepared together with the 

Equality Office of UniGE was 

sent to all women researchers 

in MaNEP in order to evaluate 

the current work and promote 

activities devoted to the advancement 

of women. 

Communication and 

outreach 

MaNEP has initiated many 

ambitious communications 

and outreach projects. The SupraFête 

is a very special event 

when 1500 people were able 

to discover superconductivity 

and which provided many new 

PR tools, namely a movie, a 

fun exhibition and a brochure 

illustrated by the well-known 

Swiss cartoonist Mix&Remix. 

The PhysiScope, created by 

MaNEP and with the collaboration 

of the Physics Section 

UniGE was launched in the 

autumn of 2008. There were 

also fruitful collaborations 

with CERN. In 2011, the centennial 

of the discovery of superconductivity 

has been celebrated. 

MaNEP has launched 

a large programme of collaboration 

with different partners 

such as UniGE and the PhysiScope, 

PSI, SPS, CERN, or 

EuroPhysicsFun. In April, in 

Geneva, MaNEP, UniGE and 

the PhysiScope have organised 

daily one hour shows 

on superconductivity for the 

general public welcoming 

500 visitors. In autumn, the exhibition 

SUPRA100 about superconductivity 

presenting an 

artwork by the artist Etienne 

Krähenbühl, was shown at 

UniMail in Geneva, as well 

as an artistic performance by 

the company Exos, a family 

day with experiments, demonstrations, 

laboratory visits, 

shows, which welcomed 

more than 1200 visitors, and 

a grand conference for the 

general public by Prof. Koichi 

Kitazawa. Superconductivity 

was also one theme of those 

presented at the PSI Open 

Doors in October. In 2013, the 

exhibition SUPRA100 takes 

place from 19 January to 20 

May at the Muséum d’Histoire 

Naturelle in Neuchâtel. 


www.manep.ch 




SNSF funding 1 4 615 000 3 615 000 2 500 000 2 235 000 12 965 000 15 


institution 2 2 883 030 3 245 903 3 064 344 5 889 072 15 082 349 18 


participants 

15 151 828 15 599 834 13 806 309 8 870 550 53 428 521 62 

Third-party funding 3 1 198 607 2 104 952 298 450 1 058 205 4 660 214 5 

Total 23 848 465 24 565 689 19 669 103 18 052 827 86 136 084 100 

Personnel 4 

1 


2 


3 



4 


5 


6 


7 



8 


9 



Advisory Board 

Blank Dave, Prof. 

Cava Robert, Prof. 

Jérôme Denis, Prof. 

Millis Andrew, Prof. 

Sawatzky George, Prof. 

Technische Natuur Wetenschappen, University of Twente, Enschede, NL 

Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, USA 

Lab. de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, FR 

Departement of Physics, Columbia University, USA 

Physics Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CA 



Scheffold Frank, Prof. (Chair) 

Claeson Tord, Prof. 

Deutscher Guy, Prof. 

Hallberg Karen, Prof. 

Larbalestier David, Prof. 

Raveau Bernard, Prof. 

Schlom Darrell G., Prof. 

Vollhardt Dieter, Prof. 



Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

DE FR IT CN RU 

Management 10.3 5 5 24 16 76 18 0 1 1 0 0 3 






Other staff 36 7 19 29 81 29 1 3 1 0 0 5 

Total 319.30 53 16 277 84 125 45 29 26 11 11 95 


Totals 






Department of Nanotechnology and Nanoscience, 

Chalmers /Göteborg Universities, Göteborg, SE 

School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, IL 

Centro Atomico Bariloche, Bariloche, AR 

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tallahassee, US 

Laboratoire de Cristallographie et Sciences des Matériaux 

(CRISMAT),Université de Caen, FR 

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 

Cornell University, Ithaca, US 

Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, 

University of Augsburg, Augsburg, DE 


phone: + 41 (0)31 308 23 49, fax: + 41 (0)31 305 29 71, sbachmann@snf.ch 

• Institute of solid state physics, 

University of Tokyo, 

Kashiwanoha, JP 

• Institute of the Low Temperature 

Physics, Polish Academy of 

Sciences, Wroclaw, PL 

• Instituto Nazionale di Ricerca 

Metrologica,Torino, IT 

• International Physics Center, 

Donostia University, ES 

• Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica 

della Materia, Politecnico di 

Torino, IT 

• Joseph Henry Laboratories of 

Physics, Department of Physics, 


• Laboratoire de Physique 

Théorique et Modèles Statistiques, 

Paris, FR 

• Laboratory for High Energy 

Technologies, Russian Academy 

of Sciences, Moscow, RU 

• London Center for Nanotechnology, 

University College 

London, GB 

• Los Alamos National 

Laboratory, US 

• Manchester Centre for Mesoscience 

and Nanotechnology, 

University of Manchester, GB 

• Naval Research Laboratories, 


• Neutron Scattering Sciences 

Division, Oak Ridge National 

Laboratory, US 

• Physics Department, Columbia 


• Physics Department, University 

of Massachusetts Amherst, US 

• Physics Department, 

University of Queensland,AU 

• School of Chemical and Physical 

Sciences,Victoria University, 

Wellington, NZ 

• Solid State Physics, Ioffe Institute, 

St. Petersburg, RU 

• Solid State Theory Group, 

Centro Atomico Bariloche, AR 

• The Weizmann Institute of 

Science, Rehovot, IL 

• Theoretical Division, Los Alamos 

National Laboratory, US 

• University of Genoa, Genoa, IT 


• ABB Switzerland Ltd Corporate 

Research, Baden, CH 

• Asulab The Swatch Group R&D 

Ltd., Marin, CH 

• Boost Consulting Inc., 

Somerville, US 

• Bruker Optics GmbH, 

Fällanden, CH 

• IBM Research Laboratory GmbH, 

Rüschlikon, CH 

• Kugler Bimetal SA, Geneva, CH 

• Manufacture d’Outils Dumont SA, 

Montignez, CH 

• Microsoft Research, 

Santa Barbara, US 

• Omicron Nanotechnology, 

Taunusstein, US 

• Phasis Sàrl, Genève, CH 

• Sensorscope Sàrl, Lausanne, CH 

• Vacheron Constantin SA, 

Geneva, CH 

• Winterthur Instruments GmbH, 

Winterthur, CH 




Nanoscale Science – Impact on Life 

Sciences, Sustainability, Information 

and Communication Technologies 

NCCR Nanoscale Science 


June 1, 2001 


Director 

Schönenberger Christian, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)61 267 36 90 

christian.schoenenberger@ 

unibas.ch 


Loss Daniel, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)61 267 37 49 

daniel.loss@unibas.ch 

Scientific Communication 

Gerber Christoph, Prof. Dr. 

phone: + 41 (0)61 267 07 60 

christoph.gerber@unibas.ch 

Administration 

Fischer Audrey, Mrs. 

phone: + 41 (0)61 267 12 38 

audrey.fischer@unibas.ch 


Gyalog Tibor, Dr. 

phone: +41 (0) 61 267 14 72 

tibor.gyalog@unibas.ch 


Meier Wolfgang, Prof. 

phone: +41 (0)61 267 38 02 

wolfgang.meier@unibas.ch 


Hornstein Meret, Mrs. 

phone: +41 (0)61 267 15 21 

meret.hornstein@unibas.ch 


Transfer 


Address 

Swiss Nanoscience Institute 


Universität Basel 

Klingelbergstrasse 82 

4056 Basel 

phone: + 41 (0)61 267 12 38 

fax: + 41 (0)61 267 34 08 

audrey.fischer@unibas.ch 

Web Address 


Research 

Module Nanobiology 

Heads: R. Lim, D. Müller 

Bio-Synthetic Cellular 

Nanomachines 

H: R.Y.H. Lim 

Nanocrystals 

H: P. Pantazis 

Mechanical Control 

of Cell Division 

H: D. Müller 

Photonic Force Nanospectroscopy 

in Living Systems 

H: S. Jeney 

Correlating Tumorogenic 

Effects with the Mechanobiology 

of Cells in 3D Cultures 

H: C.-A. Schönenberger 

Applying Cantilever-Array 

Technology 

H: Ch. Gerber 

Complex Nanosystems 

for Medical Application based 

on Polymer Carriers 

H: P. Hunziker 

Structural systems biology 

of neurodegenerative 

diseases with nanotechnological 

tools 

H: H. Stahlberg 

Module Quantum Computing 

and Quantum Coherence 

Heads: D. Loss, K. Ensslin 

Qubit and Spintronics (theory) 

H: D. Loss 

Experimental Manipulation 

of Quantum Systems 

H: K. Ensslin 

Interference of Spin-Orbit 

Interaction 

H: G. Salis 

Quantum Coherence 

in Nanoscale Systems 

H: D. Zumbühl 

Mesoscopic Nuclear Spin 

Ensembles 

H: A. Imamoglu 

54 | Guide 2013 

Quantum Coherence and 

Quantum Computing in Superconducting 

Nanostructures 

(theory) 

H: C. Bruder 

Entanglement and quantum 

interface on atom chips 

H: P. Treutlein 

Spins in self-assembled 

quantum dots 

H: R. Warburton 

Module Atomic and Molecular 

Nanosystems 

Heads: E. Meyer, H.-J. Hug 

Energy Dissipation 

of Nanosystems 

H: E. Meyer 

Nanomagnetism 

H: H.-J. Hug 

Molecular Machinery 

H: G. Meyer, R. Fasel 

Atomistic Simulations 

H: S. Goedecker 

Coupling Ultrasensitive Cantilevers 

to Mesoscopic Devices 

H: M. Poggio 

Module Molecular Electronics 

Heads: C. Schönenberger, 

T. A. Jung 

Molecular Thin Film Devices 

H: T. A. Jung 

Molecular Nanowires 

H: C. Schönenberger 

Molecular Junctions 

H: M. Calame 

Plasmonic Junctions 

H: O.J.F. Martin 

Single Molecule Switches 

and Potentiometers 

H: M. Mayor 

Donor-Acceptor Architectures 

for Photovoltaics 

H: F. Diederich 

Two-dimensional electronic 

materials 

H: A. Kis 

Controlling Spins in Adsorbed 

Molecules by a Chemical Switch 

H: T.A. Jung 

Module Self-Assembly 

at Surfaces 

Heads: F. Diederich, W. Meier 

Self-Assembly at Surfaces 

H: F. Diederich, T. Jung, 

E. Constable 

Self-Assembling Peptides 

and Polymers 

H: W. Meier, H. Wennemers, 

T. Ward, T. Pfohl 

Metal-based self-assembled 

nanostructures 

H: K. M. Fromm, F. Montagne, 

R. Pugin-Ruthishauser 

Module Nanotechnology 

and Applications 

H: J. Gobrecht, U. Pieles 

Module Supplementary 

Research Activities 

Head: C. Schönenberger 

Nanosafety 

H: B. Rothen 



Biomimimetic membranes 

designed from supported amphiphlic 

block copolymers and 

aquaporins as new materials 

for envrionmental applications 

H: Glaied O. 

Remineralisation of carious 

lesions by self assembled 

peptide supramolecular networks 

and Hydroxyapatite 

nanocrystals 

H: Pieles U. 

BioPrint - Reinforced biomimetic 

3D composite bone scaffolds 

by rapid rototyped nanoporous 

ceramic powder and electrospun 

collagen nanofibrils 

H: Schumacher R. 

Platforms 

Industrial Applications 

H: J. Gobrecht, P. Reimann 

Nanocurriculum 

Bachelor, Master and PhD 

Program in Nanoscience at 


H: Meier W. 

Contact: Spieler K., Ms. 

phone: +41 (0) 61 267 16 05 

Katrein.Spieler@unibas.ch

Topics 

Nanoscale science’s research 

focuses at the nanometer 

scale. This is 

the scale of the matter 

building blocks, namely, 

atoms and molecules. 

Therefore, at this scale the 

traditional scientific disciplines 

merge, giving place 

to a highly interdisciplinary 

interaction between physicists, 

chemists, physicians, 

biologists, pharmacologists, 

computer scientists and 

engineers. This is clearly 

reflected in the very interdisciplinary 

work carried 

out within the NCCR 

Nanoscale Science, Scientists 

from different disciplines 

come together to 

gain insight in this field 

further develop methods 

and scientific tools. The 

goal of the teams taking 

part in this network is to 

come up with outstanding 

scientific achievements 

that will secure the 

position of the NCCR as 

a leader in the nanoscale 

science. The different and 

strongly interconnected 

topics covered by the 


researchers include: Impact 

of nanoscale science on 

life sciences and medicine, 

biology at the nanoscale, 

molecular machinery and 

nanorobotics, quantum 

de-vices and systems for 

computing and communication 

and quantum coherence, 

nanoscale science at 

the ultimate limits, nanomaterials 

ranging from 

biological systems, carbonnanotubes 

to nano clusters 

and molecular electronics. 

Bruder Christoph, Prof. 

Departement Physik, Universität Basel 

Calame Michel, Dr. 


Constable Edwin, Prof. 


Diederich François, Prof. 

Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, ETH Zürich 

Ensslin Klaus, Prof. 

Laboratorium für Festkörperphysik, ETH Zürich 

Fasel Roman, Dr. 

Abteilung Oberflächen, Beschichtungen, Magnetismus, EMPA 



Gerber Christoph, Prof. 


Gobrecht Jens, Prof. 


Goedecker Stefan, Prof. 


Hug Hans Josef, Prof. 

Nanoscale Materials Science, EMPA, Dübendorf 

Hunziker Patrick, Prof. 

Dept. of internal medicine, Cardiology, University Hospital Basel 

Imamoglu Atac, Dr. 

Institute of Quantum Photonics, ETH Zürich 

Jeney Sylvia, Prof. 


Jung Thomas, Prof. 

Lab for Micro- and Nanostructures, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen 

PSI 

Kis Andras, Prof. 

Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures, EPFL 

Klok Harm-Anton, Prof. 

Laboratoire des Polymères, EPF Lausanne 

Lim Roderick Y.H., Prof. 




Martin Olivier F., Prof. 

Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory, EPFL 

Mayor Marcel, Prof. 




Meyer Ernst, Prof. 


Meyer Gerhard, Dr. 

IBM Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon 

Montagne Franck, Dr. 

CSEM, Neuchâtel 

Müller Daniel, Prof. 

ETH, Biosystems Science and Engineering (BSSE), Basel 

Pantazis Periklis, Prof. 

ETH, Biosystems Science and Engineering (BSSE), Basel 

Pfohl Thomas, Prof. 


Pieles Uwe, Prof. 

FHNW Life Sciences, Muttenz 

Poggio Martino, Prof. 


Pugin Raphaël, Dr. 

CSEM, Neuchâtel 

Rothen-Ruthishauser Barbara, Prof. Adolph Merkle Institut, University of Fribourg, Marly 

Salis Gian, Dr. 


Schönenberger Christian, Prof. Departement Physik, Universität Basel 

Schönenberger Cora-Ann, Dr. Biozentrum, Universität Basel 


C-CINA Biozentrum, Universität Basel 

Treutlein Philipp, Prof. 


Warburton Richard, Prof. Departement Physik, Universität Basel 

Ward Thomas, Prof. 


Wennemers Helma, Prof. 


Zumbühl Dominik, Prof. 



Programme 

• HYSWITCH 

• NanoBio-RAISE 

• Pico-Inside 


• Anorganische Chemie, 


• Applied and Environmental 

Chemistry Department, 

University of Szeged, HU 

• Biophysical Engineering, 

University of Twente, NL 

• Center for Nanoscience, 

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 

Munich, DE 

• Center for Spintronics and 

Quantum Computation, University 

of California, Santa Barbara, US 

• Centre d’Elaboration de Matériaux 

et d’Etudes Structurales, 

Centre National de la Recherche 

Scientifique, Toulouse, FR 

• Centre for Research on Adaptive 

Nanostructures and Nanodevices, 

Trinity College Dublin, IE 

• Centre Scientifique de Saint 

Jérôme, Université Paul Cézanne 

Aix-Marseille, FR 

• Chemical Engineering, 

Tel Aviv University, IL 

• Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 

Istituto per la Sintesi 

Organica e la Fotoreattivita, 

Bologna, IT 

• Département de Chimie, 

Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie 

Supramoléculaires, Strasbourg, FR 

• Department of Applied Chemistry, 

University of Osaka, JP 

• Department of Bionanoscience, 

Delft University of Technology, NL 


Clemson University, US 


Columbia University, 

New York, US 




McMaster University, Hamilton, CA 


Oklahoma State University, 

Stillwater, US 




University of Durham, GB 

• Department of Condensed Matter 

Physics, Josef Stefan Institute, 

Ljubljana, SI 

• Department of Engineering, 

Cambridge University, GB 

• Dept. of Complex Matter, Dept. of 

Complex Matter, Ljubljana, SI 

• Department of Physical Chemistry, 

University of Mainz, DE 

• Department of Physical Chemistry, 

University of Malaga, ES 

• Department of Physics, McGill 

University, Montreal, CA 

• Department of Physics, Bilkent 

University, TR 


Budapest University of 

Technology and Economics, HU 

• Department of Physics, Columbia 



Harvard University, Cambridge, US 


Korea University, Seoul, KR 

• Department of Physics, Ohio State 

University, Columbus, US 


University of Aarhus, DK 


University of Rochester, US 

• Department of Solid State Physics, 


• Dipartimento di Chimica, 

Università di Bologna, IT 


• Dipartimento di Chimica Organica 

e Industriale Consorzio Interuniversitario 

Nazionale per la Scienza 

e Tecnologia dei Materiali, Parma, IT 

• Dipartimento di Chimica, 

Istituto per la Sintesi Organica 

e la Fotoreattività, Bologna, IT 

• Dipartimento di Farmacia, 

Università degli studi di Trieste, IT 

• Division of Structural Studies, MRC 

Laboratory of Molecular 

Biology, Cambridge, GB 

• Electrochimie et Physiochimie 

des Complexes et des Systèmes 

Interfaciaux, Université Louis 

Pasteur, Strasbourg, FR 

• Electrical Engineering Department, 

University of Notre Dame, 

Notre Dame, US 

• Biologie und Chemie, 

Universität Bremen, DE 

• Fachbereich Physik, 

Universität Duisburg, DE 

• Fachbereich Physik, 

Universität Konstanz, DE 

• Faculté des Sciences, 

Université de Namur, BE 

• Faculty of Physics, Astronomy, 

Krakow, PL 

• Faculty of Physics, 

University of Regensburg, DE 

• Fisica de la Materia Condensada, 

Universidad Autonoma, 

Madrid, ES 

• Forschungsinstitut für Technikund 

Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 

Deutsches Museum, München, DE 

• IBM Almaden Research Center, 

San Jose, US 

• Institut de Chimie, Université de 

Strasbourg, FR 

• Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, 

University of Valencia, ES 

• Institut de Physique et Chimie 

des Matériaux de Strasbourg, FR 

• Institut für Organische Chemie und 

Biochemie, Universität Freiburg, DE 

• Institut für Photonik und Quantenelektronik, 

Karlsruher Institut 

für Technologie, Karlsruhe, DE 

• Institut für Physikalische und 

Theoretische Chemie, TU Graz, AT 

• Institute for Quantum Computing, 

University of Waterloo, CA 

• Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 


• Institute of Materials Research and 

Engineering, Singapore, SG 

• Institute of Molecular Science, 

University of Valencia, ES 

• Institute of Organic 

Chemistry and Technology, 

University of Pardubice, CZ 

• Institute of Physical and 

Theoretical Chemistry, Graz 

University of Technology, AT 

• Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian 

University, Krakow, PL 

• International Center for Materials 

Nanoarchitectonics, National 

Institute for Material Science, 

Tsukuba, JP 

• Laboratoire de Physique des 

Solides, Université Paris-Sud, FR 

• Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel, Ecole 

Normale Supérieure, Paris, FR 

• Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki 

University of Technology, FI 

• Lehrstuhl für Angewandte 

Festkörperphysik, Universität 

Bochum, DE 

• London Centre for Nanotechnology, 


• Mecánica de los Medios Continuos 

y Teoría de las Estructuras, 

Universidad de Castilla 

La Mancha, Almaden, ES 

• Microsystems and Material Laboratory, 

Politecnico di Torino, IT 

• Miller School of Medicine, 

Physiology and Biophysics Department, 

University of Miami, US 

• Nano Ethics Network, 

University of Aarhus, DK 

Nanoscale Science – Impact on Life 

Sciences, Sustainability, Information 

and Communication Technologies 



Transition of the NCCR to 

a sustainable doctorate 

school 

In parallel with the termination 

activities of the 

NCCR Nano in May 2013, 

the structure of research 

funding started its transition 

from the module based 

mid-term scheme to a long 

term funding scheme by 

means of a doctorate school 

at the University of Basel. 

This transition guarantees 

the sustainable preservation 

of the achieved research 

competences and 

the continuity of the research 

networks that have 

arisen during the NCCR. 

The realization of a first 

PhD workshop on career 

complemented the preparation 

to the upcoming 

transition. 

ERC grants 

Christian Schönenberger, 

director of the NCCR Nano 

received an ERC grant for 

his research on entangled 

electrons. After Dominik 

Zumbühl and Edwin Constable, 

he is already the 

third NCCR member to receive 

one of the prestigious 

ERC research grants. 

Scientific Highlights 

Making use of scanning 

probe technology, researchers 

of the NCCR 

Nano could identify a specific 

fingerprint for breast 

cancer. These fingerprints 

are responsible for the 

formation of metastases 

and finally for the deadly 

consequences of a tumor. 

The understanding of the 

underlying basic processes 

will be of important use for 

the future development of 

cancer therapies. 

Researchers of the NCCR 

Nano have synthesized nanometer 

sized containers 

that can be to treat arteriosclerotic 

blood vessels. 

The lens shaped containers 

are able to transport active 

pharmaceutical ingredients 

to the blood vessels 

affected of a stenosis. The 

pharmaceutical ingredients 

are specifically released at 

the site of the stenosis. This 

technique allows avoiding 

side effects. 

Atoms at step edges are 

chemically more reactive 

than bulk atoms. Physicists 

of the NCCR Nano in collaboration 

with scientists 

from Finland could investigate 

the chemical forces 

of these step edge atoms 

and were able to move individual 

atoms by means of 

scanning probe methods. 

In quantum mechanical 

systems, two particles may 

be in entangled states. This 

entanglement is of importance 

for quantum information 

processing. A team 

of the NCCR Nano presented 

the first source for 

entangled particles with a 

reasonable high efficiency. 

This source, based on the 

combination of a super conductor 

and separated quantum 

dots might be essential 

for the implementation of 

future quantum mechanical 

experiments. 

A research team of the 

NCCR Nano has presented 

the coolest fridge for nanostructures 

that has ever 

Members of the Scientific Advisory Board 

Baumeister Wolfgang, Prof. 

Binnig Gerd, Prof. 

Eigler Don, Dr. 

Kroto Sir Harry, Prof. 

Melchers Fritz, Prof. 

Quate Calvin, Prof. 

Rohrer Heinrich, Dr. 

Max Planck Institute, Martinsried, DE 

Definiens AG, Munich, DE 

IBM Almaden, US 

University of Sussex, GB 



Wollerau, CH 

been built. Very low temperatures 

are of importance 

in the research of basic processes 

in nature. The researchers 

could show that 

important effects are present 

at these temperatures. 

These effects change the 

behavior of nanostructures 

qualitatively. Recently, researchers 

could proof that 

the Koringa law doesn’t 

hold at temperatures below 

0.1 Kelvin. This finding 

could be a further milestone 

in the realization of a 

quantum computer. 

Collaboration with industry 

During 2012 we could foster 

partnerships with representatives 

of small and 

middle sized companies in 

the region of north-western 

Switzerland. The Argovia 

research program attracts 

increasingly more companies 

to start projects in 

strong collaboration with 

academia. 

Rise of interest for outreach 

activities 

We were active in the communication 

and broadcast 

of nanoscience. More than 

2000 visitors and spectators 

joined our public events on 

nanoscience, nanomedicine 

and science & innovation 

in general. Beside the 

visit of school classes and 

associations, our presence 

at science fairs like TuN 

Basel, Science Days Rust 

and the Techdays organized 

by the SATW, reached 

a broad public audience. 






SNSF funding 1 4 705 000 3 285 000 1 700 000 2 398 000 12 088 000 28 


institution 2 1 628 008 1 529 610 1 043 618 1 234 400 5 435 636 12 


participants 

7 083 709 4 438 715 2 901 152 5 045 000 19 468 576 45 


Total 15 078 243 11 182 539 7 574 184 9 842 200 43 677 166 100 

Personnel 4 

1 


2 


3 



4 


5 


6 


7 



8 


9 





Mansuy Isabelle, Prof. (Chair) 

Altshuler Boris, Prof. 

Awschalom David D., Prof. 

Gaub Hermann, Prof. 

Hüfner Stefan, Prof. 

Osterwalder Jürg, Prof. 

Reinhoudt David, Prof. 

von Löhneysen Hilbert, Prof. 



Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

DE FR IT US CN 

Management 6.3 5 15 43 20 57 31 4 0 0 0 0 0 






Other staff 16 3 19 13 81 16 0 0 1 0 0 0 

Total 153.30 42 23 140 77 89 42 7 6 6 3 36 


Totals 






Department, of Physics, Columbia University, New York, US 

Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation 


Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Physik, Universität München, DE 

Fachbereich Physik, University of the Saarland, DE 


Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Twente, NL 

Physikalisches Institut, Universität Karlsruhe, DE 


phone: + 41 (0)31 308 23 49, fax: + 41 (0)31 305 29 71, 


• Organic Chemistry, 

University of Florence, IT 

• Phyisics and Chemistry 

Department, Trinity College 

Dublin, Dublin, IE 

• Physical Chemistry, 

Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 

Budapest, HU 

• Physical Chemistry, Technische 

Universität Dresden, DE 

• Physics Department, Harvard 

University, Cambridge, US 


Massachusetts Institute of 

Technology, Cambridge, US 


McGill University, Montreal, CA 

• Physics Dept., University of Central 

Florida, Orlando, US 



• Technische Universität 

Kaiserslautern, DE 

• Università di Modena, IT 

• Polish Academy of Science, 

Warsaw, PL 

• Quantum Optics Theory Group, 

University of Innsbruck, AT 

• School of Chemistry, 

University of Sydney, AU 

• School of Mechanical Systems 

Engineering, Chonnam National 

University, Gwangjuu, KR 

• Science and engineering school, 

Jacobs University, Bremen, DE 

• Science et Analyse des Matériaux 

(SAM), Centre de Recherche 

Public Gabriel Lippmann, 

Belvaux, LU 

• Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, IT 

• Simulation group, Cambridge 

University, GB 

• Sony Materials Science 

Laboratories, Stuttgart, DE 

• Structural Studies Division, 

MRC Laboratory of Molecular 

Biology, Cambridge, US 

• Surfaces and Thin Films, 

University of Groningen, NL 

• Surface Science Research Centre, 

University of Liverpool, GB 

• T. J. Watson Research Center, 

IBM Research Lab, 

Yorktown Heights, US 

• Theoretical and Computational 

Biophysics Group, Beckman 

Institute, University of Illinois 

at Urbana-Champaign, US 

• Theory group, Czeck academy of 

sciences, CZ 

• Walther-Meissner-Institute, 

Department of Physics, 

Munich, DE 


• BASF, Ludwigshafen, DE 

• Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, 

Murray Hill, US 

• BioCure (Schweiz) GmbH, 

Rebstein, CH 

• Bühler AG, Uzwil, CH 

• Corporate Research, BASF, 


• F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Roche, 

CH 

• HeiQ, Bad Zurzach, CH 

• IBM Zürich Research Laboratory, 


• Nanonis GmbH, Zürich, CH 

• Nanosurf AG, Liestal, CH 

• Nanoworld AG, Neuchâtel, CH 

• Novartis Institutes for BioMedical 

Research (NIBR), Cambridge, US 

• NTT Basic Research Laboratories, 

Atsugi-shi, JP 

• Schering AG, Berlin, DE 

• Sony Deutschland GmbH, 

Materials Science Laboratory, 

Stuttgart, DE 

Others 

• Cleven-Becker-Stiftung, Baar, CH 

• Kanton Aargau, Aarau, CH 

• Wake Determatology Associates 



NCCR Quantum Photonics 


Swiss Federal Institute of 

Technology, Lausanne 


July 1, 2001 


Director 

Deveaud-Plédran Benoît, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)21 693 54 96 

benoit.deveaud-pledran@epfl.ch 


Faist Jérôme, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)44 633 72 80 

jerome.faist@phys.ethz.ch 

Project Officer 

Schläppy Marie-Lise, Mrs. 

phone: +41(0)21 693 61 14 

marie-lise.schlappy@epfl.ch 

Administration and Secretariat 

Vaucher Ursula, Mrs. 

phone: + 41 (0)21 693 54 15 

ursula.vaucher@epfl.ch 


Transfer 




Media Relations 


phone: +41(0)21 693 61 14 


Moser Farnaz 

phone: +41 (0)21 693 19 81 

farnaz.moser@epfl.ch 

Berseth Nicole, Mrs. 

phone: +41 (0)21 693 00 78 

nicole.berseth@epfl.ch 

Andrea Fabian Montabert 

phone: +41 (0)21 693 00 75 

andrea.fabian@epfl.ch 

Marion Albertini 

phone: +41 (0)21 693 00 75 

marion.albertini@epfl.ch 

Address 


Post Office Box 123 

1015 Lausanne 

phone: + 41 (0)21 693 54 15 

fax: + 41 (0)21 693 54 10 

nccr-qp@epfl.ch 

Web Address 

http://nccr-qp.epfl.ch 

Research 

Quantum Optics 

Quantum coherence in semiconductors 

nanostructures 

H: Deveaud - Plédran B. 

Theory of quantum coherence 

in polaritonic nano devices 

H: Savona V. 

Quantum communication 

H: Gisin N. 

Single photon detectors 

H: Zbinden H. 

Coupling quantum dot spins 

to nano-cavities 

H: Imamoglu A. 

Quantum Devices 

Cavity quantum 

optomechanics (cQOM) 

H: Kippenberg T. 

Photonic crystals devices 

H: Houdré R. 


Deveaud-Plédran Benoit, Prof. 


Gisin Nicolas, Prof. 

Grandjean Nicolas, Prof. 

Houdré Romuald, Dr. 

Imamoglu Atac, Prof. 

Keller Ursula, Prof. 

Kippenberg Tobias, Prof. 

Savona Vincenzo, Prof. 

Zbinden Hugo, Dr. 


Advanced Light Sources 

Nitride based light emitters 

H: Grandjean N. 

Quantum cascade interlevel 

sources 

H: Faist J. 

Ultrafast sources 

from near infrared to X-Rays 

H: Keller U. 



High Volume Production of 

Single Frequency Mid-Infra- 

Red Sources 

H: Faist J. 

TURQUOISE 

H: Grandjean N. 

Acoustocomb - Acousto-optics 

based optical frequency comb 

stabilization 

H: Lecomte St. 

Technology Platforms, 


Science Bus 

Moser F. 

Industrial Project and 7P 

Programs 

Schläppy M.-L. 

Doctoral Program in Quantum 

Photonics 

Martin O. 

Scientific camps for young girls: 

7-10 and 11-13 years old 

Moser F. 

Institut de Physique de la Matière Condensée, EPF Lausanne 

Institut für Quantenelektronik, ETH Zürich 

Groupe de Physique Appliquée, Université de Genève 






Institut de Théorie des Phénomènes Physiques, EPF Lausanne 

Groupe de Physique Appliquée, Université de Genève 

Rosencher Emmanuel, Prof. (President) ONERA, Université Paris-Sud, FR 

De Silvestri Sandro, Prof. 

Politecnico de Milano, Italy 

Erman Marko, Dr. 

Thales Communication, Orsay, FR 

Heffernan Jon, Dr. 

Sharp Laboratories, Oxford, UK 

Kröll Stefan, Prof. 

Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden 

Riechert Henning, Prof. 

Paul Drude Institut, Berlin, DE 

Skolnick Maurice, Prof. 

University of Sheffield, United Kingdom 

Weisbuch Claude, Prof. 

University of California, Santa Barbara, USA 


Topics 

Since Einstein’s famous discoveries 

in the early 1900s, 

we know that light exhibits a 

double nature – it can be considered 

as both a wave and as 

a stream of photons. This is 

the so-called quantum behavior. 

Particles such as electrons 

bear the same duality. Therefore, 

at an infinitesimal scale, 

the interaction of light with 

matter can be manipulated, 

revealing novel phenomena 

that might prove useful. Scientists 

at the NCCR Quantum 

Photonics conduct funda- 


Research results 

The NCCR quantum photonics 

(NCCR QP) has, over its 11 

years of existence, been instrumental 

in strenghening the 

quality of research in photonics 

in Switzerland. The NCCR QP is 

now in its last year of operation, 

with scientific activities finishing 

at the end of June 2013. The 

quality of the research over the 

course of the NCCR has been 

demonstrated through several 

key performance indicators. 

The NCCR QP has seen 5 new 

full professors, 4 new assistant 

professors and 2 promotions of 

junior group leaders. Six junior 

group leaders have been supported 

within the NCCR QP 

over the years. The 180 doctoral 

students and 120 post-doctoral 

fellows published more than 

1000 publications in peer-reviewed 

journals along with the 

98 senior researchers and the 

44 group/project leaders. In 

the last phase of the NCCR QP 

(2009-2013) 449 scientific presentations 

were made at conferences 

and fairs and 4 books were 

written. Five European Council 

Grants have been awarded 

to NCCR QP project leaders. 

To celebrate such outstanding 

results NCCR QP management 

organised a conference in 

June 2012 “Photonics without 

frontiers»”(http://nccr-qp.epfl. 

ch/page-79814-en.html), where 

more than 300 people attended, 

attracted by the presentations 

of 3 Nobel Prize Winners and 

other renowned researchers. 

The highlights of the NCCR QP 

research can be viewed at 

nccr-qp@epfl.ch. 

mental research and develop 

novel technologies that carry 

the potential for numerous 

future applications: quantum 

Cryptography guaranteeing 

transaction security, quantum 

Cascade Lasers will take 

part in NASA‘s Mars Exploration 

Program to study the 

red planet habitability and 

assess whether Mars or is an 

environment able to support 

microbial life. For the third 

phase 2009-2013 the NCCR 

QP the International Advisory 

board opted for 10 Projects 

covering a wide range of 

fields such as quantum optics, 

quantum devices and advanced 

light sources. Besides 

oriented research and technology 

transfer. The NCCR 

Quantum Photonics also 

supports workshops and scientific 

camps for 11-13 year 

old girls demonstrating that 

mathematics and physics are 

rewarding. These activities 

promote and strengthen longterm 

excellence in the field of 

photonics in Switzerland. 


The industrial Program of the 

NCCR QP has had resounding 

success bridging the gap between 

fundamental research 

and the industry. NCCR QP 

scientists have created 5 startups 

which are still in operation 

today: Alpes laser, ID Quantique, 

Beamexpress, Attolight, 

and Novagan. During the second 

phase of the NCCR QP the 

7P program was created with 

the goal to increase the chances 

of NCCR QP postdoctoral fellows 

to gain employment in 

the Swiss photonic industry 

by funding their salaries for 

one year in the industry. The 

NCCR QP had, over the 3 project 

phases, 21 joint projects 

and 20 projects involving technology 

transfer with various 

companies. 

Education & training / 

Advancement of women 

The training of PhD students 

has been of importance in the 

NCCR QP and was achieved 

through different means, one 

of which was the photonics 

doctoral program at the EPFL. 

Other instruments for networking 

such as the tandem partner 

program where students were 

paired-up and exchanged their 

scientific experience over two 

weeks in each other’s laboratory 

have been very well received 

and successful. 

Collaboration with the EPFL’s 

equal opportunity office and the 

NCCR MICS resulted in many 

initiatives to promote women in 

science and encourage young 

people towards science careers. 

Yearly «girls only» programs 

are run at the EPFL with 

the goal of introducing girls to 

scientific disciplines, increase 

their confidence and faith in 

their own abilities and breaking 

gender stereotypes. The 

evaluation of these programs is 

very positive and many young 

people are repeat participants. 

The activities are fully booked 

a year before they take place 

and have received praise from 

the press, the parents and the 

children alike. The Polytèque 

has been created in order for 

young people to have access 

to scientific media. The science 

bus has been touring the 

French-speaking Switzerland 

for months in Vaud, Neuchâtel, 

Valais and Jura with 2500 

children partaking in scientific 

activities. 

Women advancement has been 

fostered through mentoring 

and career planning programs, 

meetings with role models, 

some of which Nobel Prize 

Winners, practical information 

such as child care strategies, 

funding, associations and mentorships. 

Courses to improve 

specific desirable skills and 

opportunities for networking 

have been organized. Within 

the NCCR QP 29 % of PhD 

students were females, 40 % of 

postdoctoral fellows and 10 % 

of group leaders. 

Overall, the NCCR funding 

instrument has been of tremendous 

benefit to the field of 

photonics in Switzerland. 


http://nccr-qp.epfl.ch 


Programmes 

• CLERMONT4 

• COST P21 

• COST288 

• EPIXNET 

• EU CA-QUROPE 

• EU-ANSWER 

• IST-VISTA 

• NanoTera 

• NITWAVE 

• OFSESA 

• Q-CERT 

• QON 

• STIMSCAT 

• STREP-Sinphonia 

• Teramobile 

• ULTRAGAN 

• University of Cologna, 

Germany, SFB 956 


• Abteilung Festkörperphysik, 

Universität Magdeburg, 

Magdeburg, DE 

• Advanced Technology and 

Nanoscience, Trieste, IT 

• Applied Physics Integrated Optics 

Group, Paderborn University, DE 

• Centre d’Etudes de Saclay, CEA, 

Gif-sur-Yvette, FR 

• Centre for Quantum Technologies, 

National University of Singapore, SG 

• Centre Lasers Intenses et 

Applications, University of 

Bordeaux, FR 

• Clarendon Laboratory, 


• Department of Applied Physics, 

Stanford University, Palo Alto, US 


Massachusetts Institute 

of Technology, Boston, US 



• Department of Electrical 

and Electronical Engineering, 

University of Bristol, GB 

• Department of Electrical 

Engineering, Cornell University, 

Ithaca, US 

• Department of Management 

and Engineering, University of 

Linkoping, SE 


Astronomy, Aarhus University, DK 


Astronomy, Cardiff University, GB 

• Department of Physics and Astronomy, 

University of Calgary, CA 



Rochester, US 


Harvard University, Cambridge, GB 


Università di Trento, IT 


University of Torino, IT 

• Department of Physics, Max- 

Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, 

Garching, DE 

• Department of Optoelectronics 

and Instrumentation Group, PC 

University de Rio, Rio de Janerio, BR 

• Dipartimento Fisica della Materia 

e Tecnologie Fisiche Avanzate, 

University of Messina, IT 

• Dipartimento di Fisica A. Volta, 

University of Pavia, IT 




• Engineering School, University of 

Alcala-Madrid, Alcala de Henares, ES 

• Foundation for Fundamental 

Research on Matter (FOM), 

Amsterdam, NL 

• Fraunhofer IAF Freiburg, DE 

• Ginzton Lab, Stanford University, US 

• Institut für Kernphysik, 


• Institut für Physik, Theoretische 

Physik, Berlin, DE 

• Institut für Physikalische Chemie, 


• Institute of Photonic Science, 


• Institute of Photonics and 

Nanotechnology, Italian National 

Research Council, Roma, IT 

• Institute of Technology, 

University of Lund, DK 

• Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, 

University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, FR 

• Laboratoire de Chimie de la 

matière condensée de Paris, Ecole 

National de Chimie de Paris, FR 

• Laboratoire d’Etude des 

Microstructures, l’Office National 

d’Études et Recherches 

Aérospatiales, Chatillon, FR 

• Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel, Ecole 

Normale Superior, Paris, FR 

• Laboratoire Physique de 

Nanostructures, Marcoussis, FR 

• Laboratoire Physique du Solide, 

Université de Toulouse, 


• l’Ecole Polytechnique, 

University of Nice, FR 

• Lund Laser Center, 

STINT Lund University, SE 

• Matériaux et Phénomènes 

Quantiques, University of Paris 

Diderot, FR 

• Max Planck Institute for the 

Physics of Complex Systems, 

Dresden, DE 

• National Research Group, 

University of Lecce, IT 

• Optoelectronics Department, 


• Photonics and Semiconductor 

Nanophysics, University 

of Technology Eindhoven, NL 

• Quantum Optics, Institute of 

Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, ES 

• School of Engineering and 

Applied Science, Yale University, 

New Haven, US 

• Unité de Formation et de 

Recherche en Physique, Université 

Claude Bernard Lyon, FR 


• Aerodyne Research Inc, Billerica, US 

• Avalon, Zurich, CH 

• Beamexpress, Lausanne, CH 

• CSEM, Neuchâtel, CH 

• Dätwyler/Silitec, Boudry, CH 

• Daylight Solutions, Poway, US 

• Delong Instruments a.s., Brno, CZ 

• Exalos AG, Schlieren, CH 

• EXFO Inc., Ontario, CA 

• Id Quantique SA, Geneva, CH 

• Laboratoire Optique Electronique 

Appliquée (OPEA), Vincennes, FR 

• Lasag Inc, Thun, CH 

• Lovalite, Besancon, FR 

• Namiki Precision Jewel Co., Tokyo, JP 

• Novagan, Lausanne, CH 

• Phocone AG, Zurich, CH 

• Rolex SA, Geneva, CH 

• SolSens, Bern, CH 

• Swisscom Group, Geneva, CH 

• Wilco AG, Wohlen, CH 



SNSF funding 1 3 905 000 2 825 000 1 700 000 2 055 000 10 485 000 31 


institution 2 2 539 220 2 366 459 1 358 663 1 299 000 7 563 342 22 

Self-funging from project 

participants 

4 967 272 4 011 920 2 231 002 2 000 000 13 210 194 39 

Third-party funding 3 1 035 728 648 739 608 632 500 000 2 793 099 8 

Total 12 447 220 9 852 118 5 898 297 5 854 000 34 051 635 100 

Personnel 4 

1 


2 


3 



4 


5 


6 


7 



8 


9 





Scheffold Frank, Prof. (Chair) 

Baets Roel, Prof. 

Ebeling Karl Joachim, Prof. 

Forchel Alfred, Prof. 

Knop Karl, Dr. 

Mourou Gérard, Prof. 


Rarity John G., Prof. 



Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

FR DE IT ES CA 

Management 1.5 5 2 50 2 50 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 






Other staff 28 16 57 12 43 22 4 0 0 2 0 1 

Total 137.50 33 24 107 76 51 23 19 13 4 3 29 


Totals 






Department of Information Technology, Universiteit Gent, BE 

Rektor der Universität Ulm, DE 

Technische Physik, Universität Würzburg, DE 

CSEM Zurich, CH 

ENSTA, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, FR 


Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bristol University, GB 


phone: + 41 (0)31 308 23 49, fax: + 41 (0)31 305 29 71, 



Molecular Ultrafast 

Science and Technology 

NCCR MUST 


ETH Zurich, University of Bern 


July 1, 2010 

Research 

Application of Ultrafast 

Spectroscopic Techniques for 

Investigating Liquid Interfaces 

and Photoinduced Electron 

Transfer Reactions 

Head: Vauthey E. 

Charge Transfer Reactions 

at Molecular Interfaces 

H: Girault H. 

Coherent Control in 

Complex Molecular Systems 

H: Wolf J.-P. 

Dynamics of Light-Induced 

Interfacial Electron Transfer 

and Charge Transport 

in Molecular Materials 

H: Moser J.-E. 

Electronic and Structural 

Dynamics of Chemical 

and Biological Systems 

H: Chergui M. 


Abela Rafael, Dr. 

Beaud Paul, Dr. 

Chergui Majed, Prof. 

Feurer Thomas, Prof. 

Gerber Thomas, Dr. 

Girault Hubert, Prof. 

Hamm Peter, Prof. 

Hengsberger Matthias, Dr. 


Meuwly Markus, Prof. 

Moser Jacques-E., Prof. 


Patterson Bruce, Dr. 

Röthlisberger Ursula, Prof. 

Vanicek Jiri, Prof. 

Vauthey Eric, Prof. 

Wolf Jean-Pierre, Prof. 

Femtosecond and Attosecond 

VUV-XUV Spectroscopy 

H: Keller U. 

Femtosecond IR Spectroscopy 

Research 

H: Hamm P. 

Intense THz Science 

and Spectroscopy 

H: Feurer Th. 

Nonlinear Ferntosecond 

Spectroscopy and Time 

Resolved Photo- Electron 

Spectroscopy 

H: Gerber Th. 

Pilot Time-Resolved 

Experiments for the SwissFEL 

H: Patterson B., Abela R. 

Quantitative 

Atomistic Simulations 

H: Meuwly M. 

Simulations of Ultrafast 

Quantum Dynamics in Gas 

and Condensed Phase 

H: Röthlisberger U. 

Theoretical Methods for 

Ultrafast Quantum Dynamics 

H: Vanicek J. 

Ultrafast Dynamics 

on Surfaces 

H: Hengsberger M., 

Osterwalder J. 

Ultrafast Structural 

Dynamics Observed 

with Femtosecond X-Rays 

H: Beaud P. 



Two-Pulse 

H: Feurer Th. 

High-power THz generation in 

organic crystals based on eonventional 

Ti:Sapphire laser 

technology 

H: Hauri Chr., Abela R. 

Paul Scherrer Institut PSI, Villigen 


Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy (LSU) EPF Lausanne 

Institut für Angewandte Physik, Universität Bern 


Laboratoire d‘électrochimie Physique et Analytique (LEPA), 

EPF Lausanne 

Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Zürich 

Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich 

Institut für Quantenelektronik, ETH Zurich 


Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques (ISIC), EPF Lausanne 

Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich 


Laboratoire de Chimie et Biochimie Computationnelles (LCBC), 

EPF Lausanne 

Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Théorique (LPTC), EPF Lausanne 

Département de Chimie Physique, Université de Genève 

GAP-Biophotonics, Université de Genève 


Director 


phone: +41 (0) 44 633 21 46 

keller@phys.ethz.ch 

Co-Director (Uni BE) 


Feurer Thomas, Prof. 

phone: +41 (0) 31 631 89 13 

thomas.feurer@iap.unibe.ch 

Scientific Officer 

van Beilen Volland Jan, Dr. 

phone: +41 (0) 44 633 29 90 

jan.vanbeilen@phys.ethz.ch 

Outreach Officer 

Garry Anna, Dr. 

phone: +41 (0) 44 633 37 20 

anna.garry@phys.ethz.ch 

Finances and administration 

Bachmann Susanne, Ms. 

phone: +41 (0) 44 633 36 02 

susanne.bachmann@phys.ethz.ch 


Transfer 

Harder Christoph, Dr. 

phone: +41 (0) 79 219 90 51 

charder@swissonline.ch 


Wolf Jean-Pierre, Prof. 

phone : +41 (0) 22 379 05 03 

jean-pierre.wolf@unige.ch 


Röthlisberger Ursula, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0) 21 693 03 21 

ursula.roethlisberger@epfl.ch 

Garry Anna, Dr. 

phone: +41 (0) 44 633 05 03 

Address 

ETH Zürich 

NCCR - MUST 

IQE/ULP- HPT H3 

Wolfgang-Pauli-Str.16 

8093 Zurich 

phone: +41 (0) 44 633 36 02 

info@nccr-must.ch 

Web Address 

http://www.nccr-must.ch 


Molecular Ultrafast Science 

and Technology 

NCCR MUST 


Programmes 

• microCoR (COST) 

• Detailed Chemical Kinetic Models 

For Cleaner Combustion (COST) 

• Germaine de Stael (SATW) 

• IFP MUST (FP7 COFUND) 

• NAMDIATREAM (FP7) 

• HINTS (FP7) 


• Advanced Photonics Research 

Institute, Gwuangju, KR 

• AIDA, Karlsruhe Institute of 

Technology, Karlsruhe, DE 

• Applied synthetic chemistry, Vienna 

University of Technology, Vienna, AT 

• CELIA, Université de Bordeaux, 

Bordeaux, FR 

• Chemistry, Princeton 

University, Princeton, US 

• Chemistry, University 

of Madison, Madison, US 

• CNRS - Département NANO, 

Université de Bourgogne Dijon, 

Dijon, FR 

• Combustion Research Facility, 

Sandia National Laboratories, 

Livermore, US 

• Departamento de Quimica, 

Universidad Autonoma Madrid, 

Madrid, ES 

• Department of Chemistry, Durham 

University, Durham, GB 

• Department of Chemistry, Stanford 

University, Stanford, US 


University of North Carolina, 

Chapel Hill, US 

• Department of Chemistry, University 

of Wisconsin, Madison, US 

• Department of Chemistry & 

Pharmacy, University Erlangen- 

Nürnberg, Erlangen, DE 

• Department of Physics, Ben- 

Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, IL 

• Department of Physics, University 

of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SI 

• Department of Physics, Università 

degli Studi di Roma, Roma, IT 

• Department of Physics and Astronomy, 

Aarhus University, Aarhus, DK 



Rochester, Rochester, US 

• Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico 

di Milano, Milano, IT 

• Experimentalphysik, Free 

University Berlin, Berlin, DE 

• Faculty of Science and Technology, 

University of Twente, Enschede, NL 

• Fakultät für Physik, University 

Konstanz, Konstanz, DE 

• Freiburg Institute for Advanced 

Studies, Freiburg, DE 

• Fundamental & Computational 

Sciences, Pacific Northwest 

National Laboratory, Richland, US 

• Geballe Lab for Advanced 

Materials, Stanford University, 

Stanford, US 

• Institute Methods and 

Instrumentation for Synchrotron 

Radiation Research, Helmholtz 

Zentrum Berlin, Berlin, DE 

• Institute of Physical Chemistry, 

University Wuerzburg, Würzburg, DE 

• Institute of Technology and 

Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute 


Topics 



(NCCR) “MUST – Molecular 

Ultrafast Science and 

Technology” opens up new 

perspectives for the study 

of molecular systems and 

time-resolved structural 

investigations in physics, 

chemistry and biology. The 

NCCR MUST focuses on the 

multidisciplinary development 

of experimental and 

theoretical tools. Therefore 

researchers will investigate 

chemical reactions and energy-transfer 

processes at 

the atomic and molecular 

level, as well as electron 

and proton transfer processes 

with ultra short temporal 

and spatial resolution. 

A deeper understanding of 

matter at microscopic level 

is crucial for dealing with 

important social challenges 

such as the quest for alternative 

energy sources, the 

synthesis of complex functional 

medicines and the 

development of new electronic 

devices. 




SNSF funding 1 5 510 000 3 990 000 4 385 000 3 895 000 17 780 000 46 


institution 2 1 280 000 1 230 000 1 030 000 1 030 000 4 570 000 12 



585 000 535 000 535 000 535 000 2 190 000 6 


participants 

3 320 991 3 975 122 3 451 050 3 449 050 14 196 213 37 

Third-party funding 3 0 77 770 0 0 0 0 

Total 10 695 991 9 807 892 9 401 050 8 909 050 38 736 213 100 

Personnel 4 

1 


2 


3 



4 


5 


6 




Scheffold Frank, Prof (Chair) 

Chen Peter, Prof. 

de Vivie-Riedle Regina, Prof. 

Elsaesser Thomas, Prof. 

Falcone Roger W., Prof. 

Leutwyler Samuel, Prof. 

Mukamel Shaul, Prof. 

Parker Anthony W., Prof. 

Sundström Villy, Prof 

Wolf Martin, Prof. 



Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

DE IT FR GB US 

Management 3.8 5 5 56 4 44 6 2 0 0 1 0 0 






Other staff 7 0 0 7 100 5 0 0 1 0 1 0 

Total 131.80 35 26 102 74 46 37 14 9 5 5 35 

Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern, CH 


Department Chemie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, DE 

Max-Born-Institute, Berlin, DE 

Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, US 


Department of Chemistry, University of California Irvine, US 

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation, 

Oxfordshire, UK 

Department of Chemical Physics, Lund University, SE 

Abteilung Physikalische Chemie, Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, 

Berlin, DE 


phone: + 41 (0)31 308 23 49, fax: + 41 (0)31 305 29 71, 


• Institut für Kernphysik, University 

of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, DE 

• Institut für Organische Chemie, 

Universität Giessen, Giessen, DE 

• Laboratoire de Chimie Quantique, 

Université de Strasbourg, 


• Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, 

Université Joseph Fourier, 

Grenoble, FR 

• Laboratory for Functional 

Polymers, Swiss Federal 

Laboratories for Materials Science 

and Testing, Dübendorf, CH 

• Laser Labor Goettingen, 

Goettingen, DE 

• LINAC Coherent Light Source, SXR 

station, Stanford Linear Accelerator 

Center, Stanford, US 

• LINAC Coherent Light Source, 

XPP station, Stanford Linear 

Accelerator Center, Stanford, US 

• Los Alamos National Laboratory, 

Los Alamos, US 

• Lundbeck Foundation Theoretical 

Center for Quantum System 

Research, Aarhus University, 

Aarhus, DK 

• Max Planck Institute for the 

Physics of Complex Systems 

(MPIPKS), Max Planck Institute, 

Dresden, DE 

• Organic Chemistry, Bulgarian 

Academy of Sciences, Sofia, BG 

• Organic Chemistry, University of 

Kharkov, Kharkov, UA 

• Physics Department and Center of 

Applied Photonics, University of 

Konstanz, Konstanz, DE 

• Physics, Karlsruhe Institut of 

Technology, Karlsruhe, DE 

• Physics, Université de Bourgogne, 

Dijon, FR 

• Physics, TU-Wien, Wien, AT 

• Rutgers Center for Emergent 

Materials, Rutgers University, 

Piscataway, US 

• School of Chemical Sciences, 

University of Birmingham, 

Birmingham, GB 

• School of Electrical and Computer, 

University of Purdue, West 

Lafayette, US 

• Swiss Norwegian Beamline, 

European Synchrotron Radiation 

Facility, Grenoble, FR 


• ABACUS Patentanwälte, Adliswil, 

CH 

• Bystronic, Niederoenz, CH 

• Novartis, Basel, CH 

• OneFive, Zurich, CH 

• Rainbow Photonics AG, Zurich, CH 

Others 

• European Commission, Photonics, 

Brussels, BE 

• European Photonics Industry 

Consortium, Paris, FR 

• European Technology Platform 

Photonics21, Brussels, BE 

• Innovation and Implementation 

Strategy Photonics21, Düsseldorf, 

DE 

• International Optoelectronics 

Associations, Tokyo, JP 

• Optical Society of America, 


• Verein Schweizer Laser und 

Photonik Netz, Wollerau, CH 


Intelligent Robots for 

Improving the Quality of Life 

NCCR Robotics 


EPF Lausanne 


December 1, 2010 


Director 

Floreano Dario, Prof. 

Phone: + 41 (0) 21 693 52 30 

dario.floreano@epfl.ch 


Pfeifer Rolf, Prof. 

Phone: +41 (0) 44 635 43 20 

pfeifer@ifi.uzh.ch 

Managing Director 

Butty Anne-Christine, PhD, MBA 

Phone +41 21 693 10 16 

anne-christine.butty@epfl.ch 


Transfer 

Robert Riener, Prof. 

Phone: +41 (0)44 632 66 79 

riener@mavt.ethz.ch 

Technology Transfer Officer 

Estier Thomas 

Tel +41 (0)79 503 59 61 

thomas.estier@epfl.ch 


Auke Ijspeert, Prof. 

Phone: +41 (0)21 693 26 58 

auke.ijspeert@epfl.ch 


Moser Farnaz 

Phone: +41 (0)21 693 19 81 

farnaz.moser@epfl.ch 

Media Officer 

Anne-Muriel Brouet 

Phone: +41 (0)21 693 24 42 

Anne-muriel.brouet@epfl.ch 

Communication 

Mayra Lirot 

Phone: +41 (0)21 693 69 39 

mayra.lirot@epfl.ch 

Administration Officer 

Tania Gonin 

+41 (0)21 693 11 92 

Tania.gonin@epfl.ch 

Address 

EPFL STI PRN-ROBOTICS 

ELG 231, Station 11 

CH-1015 Lausanne 

phone: +41 (0)21 693 69 39 

fax: +41 (0)21 693 58 59 

nccr-robotics@epfl.ch 

Web Address 

www.nccr-robotics.ch 

Research 

Bio-mimetic Sensing, 

Actuation, and Mobility 

Leader: Iida F. 

Co-leader: Ijspeert A. 

Neuromorphic color vision 

Head (H): Delbruck T., 

Scaramuzza D. 

Sensory-motor tissues 

H: Floreano D., Shea H., 

Lacour St., Paik J. 

Artificial bacteria 

H: Nelson B., Martinoli A. 

Passive dynamic locomotion 

H: Iida F., Pfeifer R., 

Siegwart R. 

Learning locomotion 

H: Iida F., 

Ijspeert A., Siegwart R., Buchli J. 

Adaptive morphology 

for mobility 

H: Floreano D., Ijspeert A., 

Pfeifer R., Shea H. 

Interaction and Manipulation 

Leader: Billard A. 

Co-leader: Gassert R. 

Human centered robotic 

assistance using motion 

intention estimation 

H: Riener R., Millán J. 

Multi-modal haptic feedback 

for efficient human-machine 

interaction, sensory rehabilitation, 

and substitution 

H: Bleuler H., 

Gassert R., Riener R. 

Programming by 

demonstration of fine 

manipulation 

H: Billard A., Gassert R. 

Neuromorphic motor control 

of interactive reaching 

H: Cook M., Billard A. 

Finger sensor skin for 

humanoid robot manipulation 

H: Lacour St., Billard A. 

Prosthetic Robotics 

Leader: Millán J., 

Co-leader: Riener R. 

Brain-controlled robots 

and prosthetics 

H: Millán, J. Micera S., Pfeifer R. 

EMG-based hand prosthetics 

H: Pfeifer R., Millán J., Micera S. 

Lower extremity prosthetics 

H: Riener R., Billard A. 

Assistive walking devices 

for the elderly 

H: Bleuler H., Gassert R. 

Variable impedance joints 

for assistive devices 

H: Gassert R., Bleuler H., 

Riener R. 

Implantable neuroprostheses 

H: Courtine G., Micera S., 

Paik J., Lacour St., Millán J. 

Heads of Individual Research Projects and Key Researchers 

Billard Aude, Prof. 

Bleuler Hannes, Prof. 

Buchli Jonas, Prof. 

Cook Matthew, Dr. 

Courtine Grégoire, Prof. 

D‘Andrea Raffaello, Prof. 

Delbruck Tobias, Prof. 

Di Caro Gianni, Dr. 

Distributed Robotics 

Leader: Martinoli A. 

Co-leader: Gambardella L. 

Evolvable multi-cellular robots 

H: Floreano D., Pfeifer R. 

Morphology adapting 

to user – Roombots 

H: Ijspeert A., Dillenbourg P. 

Evaluative population-based 

distributed adaptation 

H: Martinoli A., D‘Andrea R. 

Model-based distributed 

adaptation in 3D environments 

H: D‘Andrea R., Gambardella L. 

Symbiotic human-swarm 

cooperation 

H: Gambardella L., Martinoli A., 

Di Caro G. 

Multirobot navigation of 

heterogeneous robot teams 

with onboard sensing 

H: Scaramuzza D., Buchli J., 

Siegwart R. 

Robots for Daily Life 

Leader: Mondada F. 

Co-leader: Dillenbourg P. 

Interaction analysis 

H: Dillenbourg P., Mondada F. 

Robots for daily life in homes 

H: Mondada F., Martinoli A., 

Scaramuzza D. 

Robots for daily life 

in school 

H: Mondada F., Iida F. 

Institut de Microtechnique, EPF Lausanne 


Agile and Dexterous Robotics Lab (ADRL), ETH Zürich 

Institut für Neuroinformatik, Universität Zürich 


Institut für Dynamische Systeme und Regelungstechnik, 

ETH Zürich 

Institut für Neuroinformatik, Universität Zürich 

Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, (IDSIA) 


Topics 



(NCCR) “Robotics - Intelligent 

Robots for Improving 

the Quality of Life” encompasses 

a promising field of 

engineering which aims at 

developing new, humanoriented 

robotic technology. 

In the near future, intelligent 

robots will play an 

important role in improving 

quality of life. For example, 

“care robots” will help 

elderly people to stay in 

their familiar surroundings 

longer; “neuroprosthetic” 

and “exoprosthetic” robots 

will increase the mobility 

and autonomy of people 

with disabilities; “educational 

robots” will support 

the training of a new generation 

of scientists and 

engineers; “environmental 

robots” will keep our world 

cleaner and safer. In order 

Dillenbourg Pierre, Prof. 

Floreano Dario, Prof. 

Gambardella Luca, Prof. 

Gassert Roger, Prof. 

Iida Fumiya, Prof. 

Ijspeert Auke, Prof. 

Lacour Stéphanie, Prof. 

Martinoli Alcherio, Prof. 

Micera Silvestro, Prof. 

Millán José, Prof. 

Mondada Francesco, Dr. 

Nelson Bradley, Prof. 

Paik Jamie, Prof. 

Pfeifer Rolf, Prof. 

Riener Robert, Prof. 

Scaramuzza Davide, Prof. 

Shea Herbert, Prof. 

Siegwart Roland, Prof. 


Brock Oliver, Prof. 

Fischer Markus, Dr. 

Graimann Bernhard, Dr. 

Johnson Simon 

Sandini Giulio, Prof. 

Wood Robert, Prof. 

to progress towards this vision, 

in the first phase, the 

NCCR Robotics is working 

towards developing 

fundamental design principles, 

approaches, and 

technologies required for 

the conception and design 

of human-oriented robots, 

the materials and components 

they are made of, and 

the control methods that 

enable them to interface 

and operate with humans. 

These coordinated research 

efforts are complemented 

by systematic field 

studies targeted to better 

understand the psychological, 

societal, and economic 

factors involved in bringing 

robotic technology closer to 

our daily life. 

In order to ensure longterm 

benefits to society as 

a whole, the NCCR Robot- 

CRAFT, EPF Lausanne 


Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA) 



Institut interfacultaire de Bioingénierie (STI), EPF Lausanne 

Laboratory for Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces (LSBI), EPF Lausanne 

Institut d‘ingénierie de l‘environnement, EPF Lausanne 

Neuroprosthetics Centre, EPF Lausann 

Centre de Neuroprosthèses, EPF Lausanne 



Reconfigurable Robotics Laboratory (RRL), EPF Lausanne 

Institut für Informatik, Universität Zürich 


Artificial Intelligence Lab (AI lab), University of Zurich 

Institute de Microtechnique, EPF Lausanne 


Technical University Berlin, DE 

Festo AG, DE 

Otto Bock Healthcare GmbH, DE 

CTI-Start-up, CH 

Italian Institute of Technology, IT 

Harvard University, USA 

ics aims to integrate and 

strengthen the Robotics 

educational programs at all 

levels in Switzerland and to 

utilize the innovative combination 

of technical, creative, 

and societal aspects of 

robotics research to at-tract 

young students, women 

and other under-represented 

population segments 

to science and engineering 

studies. Lastly, the 

NCCR Robotics will capitalize 

on the Swiss tradition in 

micro-engineering, precise 

manufacturing, and human-friendly 

technology, 

creating tremendous opportunities 

for knowledge 

and technology transfer at 

a point in history when human-oriented 

robotics is in 

a situation strategically 

similar to that of the nascent 

personal-computer industry 

30 years ago. 


Programmes 

• CURVACE (FP7) 

• LOCOMORPH (FP7) 

• SSSTC_JRP 

• TOBI (FP7) 


• Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 

University Zurich, CH 

• Biomedical Optics Research 

Lab (USZ), 

• Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, 

Khalifa University of Science, 

Abu Dhabi, AE 

• Division Microrobotics and 

Control Engineering, Carl von 

Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, 

Oldenburg, DE 

• Interaction Design, Zürcher 

Hochschule der Künste, 

Zurich, CH 

• Institute of Human Movement 

Sciences and Sport, ETH Zurich, 

Zurich, CH 

• Institute of Neuroinformatics, 

University of Zurich, Zurich, CH 

• Institute of Plant Biology, University 

of Zurich, Zurich, CH 

• Institute of Plant Science, University 

of Bern, Bern, CH 

• Laboratoire Pluridisciplinaire de 

Recherche Ingénieur des Systèmes, 

Méchanique, Énergétique, 

École National Supérieure d’Ingénieurs 

de Bourges, Bourges, FR 

• Laboratory of Robotics, University 

of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Sl 

• Microsystems for Space 

Technologies Laboratory, 

EPF Lausanne, CH 

• Nanomedicine Lab, University 

College London, London, GB 

• Orthopedic Center and Balgrist 

Tec, University Hospital Balgrist, 

Zurich, CH 

• Recherche appliquée & 

développement, Ecole Cantonale 

d’Art de Lausanne, CH 

• Rehabilitation Engineering Lab, 


• Research Center on Animal 

Cognition, Université Paul Sabatier, 

Toulouse, FR 

• Sensory Motor Performance 

Program, Rehabilitation Institute 

of Chicago, US 

• Social sciences Institute, Université 

de Lausanne, Lausanne, CH 

• Space Biology Group, Swiss 

Federal Institute of Technology, 

Zurich, CH 

• Spinal Cord Injury Center, 

University Hospital Balgrist, 

Zurich, CH 

• TeleRobotics Lab, 

University of Utah, Utah, US 

• UER Médias et TIC, Haute 

école pédagogique, Lausanne, CH 


Intelligent Robots for 

Improving the Quality of Life 

NCCR Robotics 


• Cyberbotics S.a.r.l, Ecublens, CH 

• Domo Safety, Lausanne, CH 

• Dynortis, Lucerne, CH 

• Equimodus Sàrl, 

La Croix sur Lutry, CH 

• Hocoma AG, Volketswil, CH 

• K-Team SA, Vallorbe, CH 

• The Walt Disney Company 

(Switzerland) GmbH, Zurich, CH 

Others 

• armasuisse, Wissenschaft und 

Technologie W + T, Thun, CH 

• Centre Suisse d’Electronique et 

de Microtechnique, Alpnach, CH 

• Département de l’instruction 

Publique, Genève, CH 

• ETH Research Grant, Zurich, CH 

• Independent Investigators’ 

Research Awards, Zurich, CH 

• Mobsya Association, 

Lausanne, CH 



SNSF funding 2 375 000 3 705 000 3 705 000 3 515 000 13 300 000 47 


institution 1 641 416 537 257 1 104 246 730 671 3 013 590 11 


participants 

2 436 720 2 184 708 3 619 282 3 470 582 11 711 291 42 


Total 5 453 136 6 472 540 8 499 778 7 787 503 28 212 956 100 

Personnel 3 

Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

DE FR US IT CN 

Management 2.5 4 3 60 2 40 2 0 2 0 1 0 1 






Other staff 20 12 60 8 40 15 2 0 1 0 0 3 

Total 109.50 25 22 87 78 41 11 7 8 8 4 40 

1 


2 



3 


4 


5 




Rudolf von Rohr Philipp, Prof. (Chair) Swiss National Science Foundation, Berne, CH 

Dillmann Rüdiger, Prof. 

Institute for Anthoropomatics- IAIM, Karlsruhe 

Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, DE 

Full Robert J., Prof. 

Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, 

Berkeley, US 

Hägele Martin, Dr. 

Fraunhofer- Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung 

IPA, Stuttgart, DE 

Harwin William, Prof. 

School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, UK 

Parker Lynne E., Prof. 

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 

The University of Tennessee, US 

Reinkensmeyer David J., Prof. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 

University of California Irvine, US 

Shokrollahi Amin, Prof. 


Winfield Alan, Prof. 

Faculty of Environment and Technology, UWE Bristol, UK 




phone: + 41 (0)31 308 23 49, fax: + 41 (0)31 305 29 71, 



Quantum Science and Technology 

NCCR QSIT 


ETH Zurich, University of Basel 


January 1, 2011 

Research 

Section 1 

Spectroscopy of single and 

few quantum systems 

Sub-section 1A: 

Quantum optomechanics 

H: Bruder C., Degen C., 

Esslinger T., Kippenberg T., 

Maletinsky P., Poggio M., 

Treutlein P., Wallraff A. 

Sub-section 1B: 

Quantum Spintronics 

H: Ihn T., Blatter J., Büttiker 

M., Ensslin K., Faist J., 

Fontcuberta i Morral A., 

Fuhrer A., Imamoglu A., 

Loss D., Morpurgo A., Salis G., 

Schönenberger C., Warburton R., 

Wegscheider W., Zumbühl D. 

Section 2 

Entanglement and strong 

correlation in few and many 

quantum systems 


Atoms and molecules 

in lattices: New approaches 

to quantum simulation 

H: Esslinger T., Blatter J., 

Bruder C., Home J., Merkt F., 

Troyer M., Willitsch S. 


Fractional quantum Hall 

states for topological quantum 

information processing 

H: Wegscheider W., Ensslin K., 

Ihn T., Imamoglu A., Loss D., 

Renner R., Troyer M., 

Zumbühl D. 


Blatter Johann, Prof. 

Bölcskei Helmut, Prof. 

Bruder Christoph, Prof. 

Büttiker Markus, Prof. 

Christandl Matthias, Prof. 

Degen Christian, Prof. 




Fontcuberta i Moral Anna, Prof. 

Section 3 

Hybrid quantum systems 


Hybrid quantum systems 

using microwave 

frequency on-chip resonators 

as a coupling bus 

H: Wallraff A., Degen C., 

Ensslin K., Ihn .T, Imamoglu A., 

Loss D., Merkt F., Treutlein P., 

Wood V. 


Quantum repeaters for 

quantum communications 

H: Gisin N., Bölcskei H., 

Christandl M., Renner R., 

Wolf S., Zbinden H. 



Cryptographic Randomness 

Extractor (CREx) 

H: Renner R., Gisin N., 

Troyer M. 

Institut für Theoretische Physik, ETH Zürich 

Institut für Kommunikationstechnik, ETH Zürich 








Institut des Matériaux, EPF Lausanne 


Director 


phone: +41 (0) 44 633 22 09 

ensslin@phys.ethz.ch 



phone: +41 (0) 44 633 23 40 

esslinger@phys.ethz.ch 

Co-Director (Uni BS) 

Warburton Richard, Prof. 

phone: +41 (0) 61 267 35 60 

richard.warburton@unibas.ch 

Coordinator 

Blatter Ilona, Dr. 

Phone: +41 (0) 44 633 36 06 

ilona.blatter@phys.ethz.ch 


Transfer 


phone: +41 22 379 65 97 

Nicolas.Gisin@unige.ch 

Rössler Johanna, Dr. 

phone: +41 44 633 23 00 

jroessler@phys.ethz.ch 



phone: +41 61 267 35 60 

richard.warburton@unibas.ch 


Fontcuberta i Morral Anna, 

Prof. 

phone: +41 21 693 73 94 

anna.fontcuberta-morral@epfl.ch 

Wood Vanessa, Prof. 

phone: +41 44 632 66 54 

wood@iis.ee.ethz.ch 

Communication 

Esslinger Tilmann, Prof. 

phone: +41 44 633 23 00 

esslinger@phys.ethz.ch 

Finances 

Künzel Sandra 

phone: +41 44 633 23 00 

kuenzels@phys.ethz.ch 

Address 

ETH Zurich, NCCR QSIT 

Laboratory for Solid State 

Physics, HPF E 3 (K. Ensslin) 

or HPF E 17 (I. Blatter) 

Schafmattstr. 16, 8093 Zurich 

phone: + 41 (0) 44 633 63 06 

fax: +41 (0) 44 633 11 46 

ilona.blatter@phys.ethz.ch 

Web Address 

www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch 


Quantum Science and Technology 

NCCR QSIT 


Programmes 

• Composing Quantum Channels 

(CQC / CHIST-ERA EU) 

• Device Independent Quantum 

Information Processing 

(DIQIP / CHIST-ERA EU) 

• Efficient and Reliable Superconducting 

Single Photon 

Detectors (SCOPES / Swiss- 

Russian Cooperation) 

• ERC grants (several starting 

and advanced grants) 

• EU-Marie Curie Actions 

(participation in several Initial 

Training Networks / Intra- 

European Fellowships) 

• MAQUIS 

(HP2C initiative / CRUS) 

• Optical Lattice Emulators 

(OLE / DARPA) 

• Optical Radiation Cooling and 

Heating in Integrated Devices 

(ORCHID / DARPA) 

• Quantum Entanglement 

Science and Technology 

(QUEST / DARPA) 

• Quantum InterfacES, 

SENsors, and Communication 

based on Entanglement 

(Q-ESSENCE / EU) 

• Quantum repeaters for long 

distance fibre-based quantum 

communication (QuReP / EU) 

• Quantum Information 

Entanglement-Enabled 

Technologies (QUIE2T / EU) 

• Nanodesigning of Atomic and 

MolEcular QUAntum Matter 

(NAMEQUAM – STREP/ EU) 

• SOLID (Solid State QI processing) 


• Austrian Institute of Technology, 

Vienna, AT 

• Consejo Superior de Investigaciones 

Científicas, Madrid, ES 

• Institut Néel, Grenoble, FR 


• ID Quantique, Geneva, CH 

• IBM Research Laboratory, 


Topics 



(NCCR) “QSIT – Quantum 

Science & Technology” 

is active in a field, which 

unites the key discoveries 

of the 20 th century: quantum 

physics and information 

theory. In future, 

research in this field will 

strongly influence science 

Fuhrer Andreas, Dr. 


Home Jonathan, Prof. 

Ihn Thomas, Prof. 

Imamoglu Atac, Prof. 

Kippenberg Tobias, Prof. 


Maletinsky Patrick, Prof. 

Merkt Frédéric, Prof. 


Poggio Martino, Prof. 

Renner Renato, Prof. 

Salis Gian, Dr. 

Schönenberger Christian, Prof. 

Treutlein Philipp, Prof. 

Troyer Matthias, Prof. 

Wallraff Andreas, Prof. 


Wegscheider Werner, Prof. 

Willitsch Stefan, Prof. 

Wolf Stefan, Prof. 

Wood Vanessa, Prof. 

Zbinden Hugo, Dr. 

Zumbühl Dominik, Prof. 

and technology. Potential 

applications are primarily 

focused in the area 

of computer science and 

sensors. The NCCR QSIT 

takes a multi-disciplinary 

approach, combining concepts 

from physics, chemistry, 

engineering and 

computer sciences. Researchers 

from many Swiss 

universities and basic researchers 

from industry 

work together in the NCCR 

network. Their two common 

goals are to develop 

applications in the area of 

quantum information processing 

and to investigate 

new paradigms in physical 

basic research such as the 

order and states of material. 


GAP-Optique, Université de Genève 




Laboratoire de photonique et mesures quantiques, EPF Lausanne 



Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich 

Département de Physique de la Matière Condensée, 












Facoltà di Lugano, Scienze informatiche, 

Università della Svizzera italiana 

Department für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnologie, 

ETH Zürich 

GAP-Optique, Université de Genève 





SNSF funding 1 3 600 000 4 500 000 4 700 000 4 500 000 17 300 000 30 


institution 2 4 005 000 3 505 000 3 505 000 2 505 000 13 520 000 24 



1 255 000 1 255 000 1 255 000 1 255 000 5 020 000 9 


participants 

5 000 417 5 993 833 4 996 950 4 818 350 20 809 550 37 

Third-party funding 0 0 120 050 51 400 171 450 0 

Total 13 860 417 15 253 833 14 577 000 13 129 750 56 821 000 100 

Personnel 3 

Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

DE IT AT CN FR 

Management 2.9 4 5 45 6 55 3 6 0 1 0 0 3 






Other staff 6 1 17 5 83 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 

Total 104.90 18 16 95 84 33 36 9 5 4 4 26 

1 


2 


3 


4 


5 




van der Marel Dirk, Prof. (Chair) 

Aspect Alain, Prof. 

Bauer Guenther, Prof. 

Brune Harald, Prof. 

Cirac Juan Ignacio, Prof. 

Giacobino Elisabeth, Prof. 

Glazman Leonid, Prof. 

Kouwenhoven Leo, Prof. 

Marcus Charles M., Prof. 

Scheer Elke, Prof. 

Scheffold Frank, Prof. 

Schön Gerd, Prof. 




Institut d’Optique, Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Palaiseau, FR 

Institut für Halbleiter- und Festkörperphysik, Universität Linz, AT 


Max-Planck Institut für Quantenphotonik, Garching, DE 

Laboratoire Kastler Brossel Université, Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, FR 

Dep. of Physics and Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, US 

Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, NL 

Niels Bohr Institute (NBI), University of Copenhagen, DK 

FB Physik, Universität Konstanz, DE 


Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Karlsruher Institut für 

Technologie (KIT), DE 


phone: + 41 (0)31 308 23 51, fax: + 41 (0)31 305 29 71 



Interactive Multimodal 

Information Management 

NCCR IM2 


Idiap Research Institute, 

Martigny 




Director 

Bourlard Hervé, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)27 721 77 20 

bourlard@idiap.ch 


Ebrahimi Touradj, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)21 693 26 06 

touradj.ebrahimi@epfl.ch 

Officer 

Foglia François, Dr. 

phone: + 41 (0)27 721 77 50 

ffoglia@idiap.ch 

Knowledge and 


Rodriguez Yann, Dr. 

phone: + 41 (0)27 721 77 72 



phone: + 41 (0)21 693 26 06 


Miauton Léonore , Mrs. 

phone: + 41 (0)27 721 77 19 

Communication 

Aymon Fournier Céline, Ms. 

phone: + 41 (0)27 721 77 15 

Address 


Idiap Research Institute 

P.O. Box 592 

1920 Martigny 

phone: + 41 (0)27 721 77 11 

fax: + 41 (0)27 721 77 12 

im2@idiap.ch 

Web Address 

www.im2.ch 

www.nccr-im2.ch 


• Newsletter IM2, www.im2.ch 

• IM2 Flyer 

• Festival “Science et Cité” 2005 

• Brochure IM2 

• Public Day at the 

“Foire du Valais” 

• “Let‘s talk about your future” 

Research 

Integrated Multimodal 

Processing 

H: Billard A. 

Human Centered Design and 

Evaluation 

H: Lalanne D. 

Social Signal Processing 

H: Vinciarelli A. 



Automated Analysis 

of Visual Exploration from 

Wearable Videos 

H: Noris B. 

Low Complexity Binary 

Features for Robust-to-Noise 

Speaker Recognition 

H: Marcel S. 

Automatic Recommendation 

of Lectures and Snippets 

(ARoLeS) 

H: Popescu- Belis A. 

Diarizing Massive Amounts of 

Heterogeneous Audio (DIMHA) 

H: Valente F. 

Heads and Deputy Heads of Individual Research Projects 

Billard Aude, Prof. 

Garner Philip, Dr. 

Lalanne Denis, Dr. 

Marchand-Maillet Stéphane, Dr. 

Popescu-Belis Andrei, Dr. 

Vinciarelli Alessandro, Dr. 

Steering Committee 

Bourlard Hervé, Prof. 


Pasquier Jacques, Prof. 

Pun Thierry, Prof. 

van Gool Luc, Prof. 


Oviatt Sharon, Prof. 

Pelachaud Catherine, Prof. 

Peters Carol, Prof. 

Renals Steve, Prof. 

Rigoll Gerhard, Prof. 

Platforms, 



Supervisor: Bourlard H. 

Co-Supervisor: Ebrahimi T. 

Female Fellowship: Bourlard H. 

Visitor exchange program 

with ICSI, Berkeley, US 


Smart Meeting Room 


Multimedia File Server 

Supervisor: Popescu-Belis A. 

LASA, EPF Lausanne 

Idiap Research Institute, Martigny 

Department of informatics, University of Fribourg 

Centre Universitaire d’Informatique, Université de Genève 



IM2 Director, Idiap Director, Professor at EPFL 

IM2 Deputy Director, EPFL 

University of Fribourg 

Faculty of Sciences of the University of Geneva 

ETHZ, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (B) 

Incaa Designs, Seattle (USA 

CNRS, LTCI, TELECOM ParisTech (FR) 

Institute for Information Science and Technologies, Pisa (IT) 

University of Edinburgh (UK) 

Technische Universität, München (DE) 



Topics 

The National Center of 


(NCCR) on Interactive 

Multimodal Information 

Management, in short 

IM2, is concerned with the 

development of natural 

multimodal interfaces for 

human-computer interaction. 

By “multimodal”, we 

mean the different technologies 

that coordinate 

natural input modes (such 

as speech, pen, touch, hand 

gestures, head and body 

movements, and eventually 

physiological sensors) with 

multimedia system output 

(such as speech, sounds, 

and images). Ultimately, 

these multimodal interfaces 

should flexibly accommodate 

a wide range of users, 

tasks, and environments for 

which any single mode may 

not suffice. 

The field of multimodal 

interaction thus covers a 

wide range of critical activities 

and applications, 

including recognition and 

interpretation of spoken, 

written and gestural language, 

particularly when 

used to interface with multimedia 

information systems, 

and biometric user 

authentication (protecting 

information access). As addressed 

by IM2, management 

of multimedia information 

systems is a wide 

ranging and important research 

area that includes 

not only the multimodal interaction 

described above, 

but also multimedia document 

analysis, indexing, 

and information retrieval. 

The development of this 

technology is necessarily 

multi-disciplinary, requiring 

the collaborative 

contributions of experts in 

engineering, computer science, 

linguistics and, more 

recently, in social sciences 

and psychology. 

As a particular kind of 

complex multimodal interaction, 

and to foster collaboration, 

IM2 decided 

to focus on the common 

vision of “computer-enhanced 

human-to-human 

interaction” and, more specifically, 

on the analysis, 

understanding and retrieving 

of face-to-face and remote 

(videoconferencing) 

multimodal meeting data. 

Indeed, understanding 

human-human interaction 

is fundamental to the long 

term pursuit of powerful 

and natural multimodal 

interfaces for human-computer 

interaction. In addition 

to better understanding 

of group processes, our 

progresses in language and 

video processing, multimedia 

indexing, as well as the 

advanced tools for working 

with multimodal data, 

will improve research and 

development in numerous 

related areas. 

In this context, IM2 thus 

aims to enhance the value 

of multimodal meeting 

recordings and to make 

human interaction more 

effective in real time. These 

goals will be achieved by 

developing new tools for 

computer supported cooperative 

work and by designing 

new ways to search 

and browse meetings as 

part of an integrated multimodal 

group communication, 

captured from a wide 

range of devices. Several 

technology prototypes, able 

to record meetings and 

to automatically generate 

searchable multimedia 

meeting archives are 

now available and some 

of the resulting technologies 

are being exploited 

by IM2 spin-offs or have 

been adopted by companies 

working in the multiple 

fields of Information and 

Communication Technology 

(ICT), including, e.g., 

video-conferencing and 

meeting facilitation. During 

its last 3-years phase, 

IM2 will further research 

and improve key multimodal 

technologies, while 

also testing its generalization 

properties on new 

domains related to brainstorming 

and tutorials. It 

will also investigate further 

new areas related to Social 

Signal Processing, a new 

research area which naturally 

arose from IM2. 

The IM2 NCCR, headed 

by the Idiap Research Institute 

in Martigny, combines 

many partners from 

a number of university institutions 

(EPFL, ETHZ, 

University of Geneva, University 

of Fribourg, and 

University of Bern), the 

HES (Universities of Technology) 

of Fribourg, Sion 

and Sierre, and a range of 

commercial companies. 

The NCCR also has numerous 

international contacts, 

including an agreement 

for the exchange of young 

researchers with the International 

Computer Science 

Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley, 

California. 

Programmes 

• 3D-COFORM 

• AMI (EU-FP6) 

• BACS (EU-FP6) 

• BIOMET 

• BioSecure 

• CHIRON (EU-FP6) 

• COMTIS 

• COST 2101 

• COST 276 

• COST 277 

• EARS 

• ECRYPT (EU-FP6) 

• ERGOMIND (EU-FP7) 

• EURON (EU-FP6) 

• GUIDE 

• HAPQNET 

• HISDOC 

• HOARSE 

• Humanitics 

• Humanitics II 

• Humavips 

• inEvent (149909) 

• IURO 

• MAIA (EU-FP6) 

• MASH (EU-FP7) 

• METISS 

• MOBIO (EU-FP7) 

• MUMIA (ICT COST Action) 

• NeuroMath (COST) 

• PASCAL (EU-FP6) 

• PASCAL2 

• PetaMedia (NoE EU-FP7) 

• Qualinet 

• RADHAR 

• SCOVIS (EU-FP7-ICT) 

• SIMILAR (EU-FP6) 

• SSPNET (NoE) 

• TACT (EU-FP6) 

• TANGO 

• TIVIPOL 

• TOBI (EU-FP7) 

• URUS (EU-FP6) 

• Vanaheim 

• VISMASTER (EU-FP7) 


• Agence Spatiale Européenne, 

Paris, FR 

• Center for Speech Technology 

Research, School of Informatics, 

Edinburgh, GB 

• Center for Vision, Speech and 

Signal Procession, Guildford, GB 

• Center for Image Science, Johns 

Hopkins University, Baltimore, US 

• Civil and Environmental 

Engineering, Massachusetts 

Institute of Technology, Boston, US 

• Communication and Remote 

Sensing Laboratory, Université 

catholique de Louvain, BE 

• CVLab, Ecole Polytechnique 

Federale de Lausanne, CH 

• Department of Applied and 

Computational Mathematics, 

California Institute of Technology, 

Pasadena, US 


József Attila, Szeged, HU 



• Department of Computing, Hong 


Interactive Multimodal 

Information Management 


Kong Polytechnic University, HK 

• Department of Computing, 

University of Lancaster, GB 


University of Arizona, Tucson, US 

• Department of Psychology, 

University of Fribourg, CH 

• Universidad Politecnica de 

Catalunya, Barcelona, ES 

• Deutsche Forschungszentrum 

für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), 

Kaiserslautern, DE 

• Deutsche Forschungszentrum 

für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), 

Saarbrücken, DE 

• Dipartimento di Ingegneria 

Elettrica ed Elettronica, Università 

degli Studi di Cagliari, IT 

• French Ministry of Research 

and Education, University 

of Avignon, FR 

• Human Dynamics Group, 

MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, US 

• International Computer Science 

Institute (ICSI), Berkeley, US 

• Istituto per le Tecnologie 

Informatiche Multimediali (ITIM), 

CNR, Milano, IT 

• Laboratoire de Télécommunications 

et Télédétection (TELE), 

Université catholique 


• Laboratoire d’Informatique pour 

la Mécanique et les Sciences de 

l’Ingénieur (LIMSI), Paris, FR 

• Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute 


• Natural Language Processing 

Laboratory, Faculty of Informatics, 

Brno, CZ 

• Speech, Audio, Brisbane, AU 

• Transportation Centre, EPFL, 

Lausanne, CH 

• Unité de Physique Mathématique, 

Université catholique 



• Alro Engineering SA, Martigny, CH 

• Alto-Service, 

Vufflens le Château, CH 

• Anteleon Imaging SARL, 

Geneva, CH 

• Atonce Capital Management AG, 

Bätterkinden, CH 

• Canon CH, Zürich, CH 

• Cinetis SA, Martigny, CH 

• Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, 

Berlin, DE 

• EyeP Media SA, Yverdon, CH 

• Fastcom Technology SA, 

Lausanne, CH 

• Fastnet, St-Sulpice, CH 

• France Telecom R&D, Lanion, FR 

• Google Inc., Mountain View, US 

• Ibermatica SA, Madrid, ES 

• IBM TJ Watson Research Center, 

New York, US 

• Ima-Sys SA, Lausanne, CH 


Multimodal Processing 

IM2 has significantly contributed 

to the development 

of a new research 

field referred to as multimodal 

processing, which is 

now viewed as increasingly 

important at the international 

level. IM2 is also 

recognized worldwide for 

its contributions in related 

areas such as speech and 

language understanding, 

computer vision, multichannel 

processing and 

fusion, and multimedia indexing. 

Meeting Recordings 

IM2 was among the first 

projects worldwide to focus 

on multimodal meeting recordings, 

which is now attracting 

more and more 

attention. IM2 thus works 

on large multimodal meeting 

databases, and makes 

them available to the scientific 

community. IM2 is 

not only significantly contributing 

to the field, but is 

also in a good position to set 

up international research 

and development standards. 

Knowledge Dissemination/ 


In addition to new university 

courses and doctoral 

programs, IM2 was also 

among the initiators of the 

series of international Multimodal 

Interaction and 

Related Machine Learning 

Algorithms (MLMI) 

workshops. In 2008, it also 

initiated a joint summer 

institute in collaboration 

with the Affective Sciences 

NCCR, already resulting in 

new collaboration. In terms 

of technology transfer, IM2 

also fostered the creation 

of several start-up companies, 

such as Anteleon 

Imaging, Klewel, Kooaba, 

Keylemon. Thanks to IM2, 

Idiap Research Institute 

and its subsidiary IdeArk 

S.A. are core components 

of the new Economic Development 

strategy of the 

Canton of Valais. 

Young and Female 

Researchers 

The exchange programme 

supported by IM2 helped 

create a privileged relationship 

between Swiss institutions, 

researchers and 

the International Computer 

Science Institute (ICSI) in 

Berkeley/USA. IM2 has 

made significant efforts to 

increase the visibility of 

women active in science 

(public events, publications, 

meeting recordings). 

IM2 supported (until 2007) 

a successful Female Fellowship 

programme aimed 

specifically at boosting the 

careers of female researchers. 

Structural Impact 

IM2 is having a strong 

and visible structural impact 

in several of the IM2 

institutions. Based on its 

growing reputation, Idiap 

is now recognized by SER 

(Federal Government) as 

part of a “strategic alliance 

with the EPF-ETH domain” 

(since January 2008). This 

came with a joint, Idiap- 

EPFL development plan 

(signed July 2008), involving 

common research 

activities, development of a 

common doctoral program 

and including the provision 

for 2 to 3 new joint EPFL/ 

Idiap assistant professor 

tenure track positions. In 

addition, the Individual 

Project in Brain machine 

Interaction yielded the 

creation of a new chair at 

EPFL. New (assistant) professor 

positions directly 

related to IM2 were created 

at ETHZ and University 

of Geneva. Finally, the 

University of Fribourg is 

seriously considering the 

creation of a new “institute” 

(Human- IST) directly leveraging 

on IM2 activities. 

Several of the IM2 partners 

have an excellent integration 

in the ERA (European 

Research Area) as key partners 

in, and often coordinators 

of, several key FP6 and 

FP7 projects. 


www.im2.ch 




SNSF funding 1 1 860 000 1 100 000 1 000 000 1 810 000 5 770 000 39 


institution 2 591 481 1 183 817 894 472 698 000 3 367 770 23 


participants 

1 040 913 512 303 607 016 627 000 2 787 232 19 


Total 4 764 160 3 246 236 2 777 693 3 880 000 14 668 089 100 

Personnel 4 

Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

FR IT IR BE CN 

Management 3.0 5 5 33 10 67 11 0 0 0 2 0 2 






Other staff 9 1 11 8 89 7 2 0 0 0 0 2 

Total 59.00 14 20 57 80 27 9 8 4 5 2 20 


Totals 





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2 


3 



4 


5 


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• Intel Corp., Santa Clara, US 

• Invacare International Sàrl, 

Gland, CH 

• KeyLemon SA, Martigny, CH 

• Logitech - Corporate Business 

Development, Morges, CH 

• Memoria, Sion, CH 

• Mentor Graphics Inc., 

Wilsonville, US 

• MHT Optic Research AG, 

Niederhasli, CH 

• Microsoft, Lausanne, CH 

• NASA, Ames Research Center, 

Moffett Field, US 

• Nestlé Research Center, Vevey, CH 

• NEXThink SA, Fribourg, CH 

• Odermatt AG, Hunzenschwil, CH 

• Odysis SA, Lausanne, CH 

• Procedural AG, Zürich, CH 

• Qualcomm Inc, San Diego, US 

• Siemens Corporate Research, 

New Jersey, US 

• SMARTDATA SA, Martigny, CH 

• Sowoon Technologies Sàrl, 

St-Imier, CH 

• Spiderphone SA, Martigny, CH 

• SVOX AG, Zürich, CH 

• Swisscom SA, Berne, CH 

• TATA Infotech, Bombay, IN 

• TBS Holding AG, Pfäffikon, CH 

• Telecontrol AG, Bern, CH 

• Toyota: Charibot, CH 

• Toyota Motor Engineering & 

Manufacturing Europe, 

Zaventem, BE 

• Veovox Sàrl, Pully, CH 

• Vision Objects SA, 

Saint Luce s/Loire, FR 

• VisioWave SA, Ecublens, CH 

• VoxAccess SA, Martigny, CH 

Others 

• Armaswiss, Bern, CH 

• Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (BCV), 

Foundation, Lausanne, CH 

• CimArk, Sion, CH 

• HASLER Foundation, Bern, CH 

• International Standards 

Organization (ISO), Genève, CH 

• University of Applied Sciences 

of Fribourg, Fribourg, CH 




Chang Shih-Fu, Prof. 

Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 

New York, US 

Chua Tat-Seng, Prof. 

Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, SG 

Jain Ramesh, Prof. 

Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, 


Meng Helen Mei-Ling, Prof. Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, 

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK 

Timmerer Christian, Prof. Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, AT 

Zhang Yu-Jin, Prof. 

Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, 

Beijing, CN 






Computer Aided and 

Image Guided Medical Interventions 

NCCR CO-ME 


Swiss Federal Institute of 

Technology Zurich 


July 1, 2001 


Director 

Székely Gábor, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)44 632 52 88 

szekely@vision.ee.ethz.ch 


Nolte Lutz-Peter, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)31 631 59 68 

lutz.nolte@istb.unibe.ch 

General Manager 

Reber Bernhard, Dr. 

phone: + 41 (0)44 632 05 23 

breber@vision.ee.ethz.ch 

Communication 

Steinmann Ruth, Mrs. 

phone: + 41 (0)44 632 51 63 

steinman@vision.ee.ethz.ch 

Finances 

Vogt Vreni, Mrs. 

phone: +41 (0)44 632 04 72 

vogt@vision.ee.ethz.ch 

Officer 

Neuenschwander Annelies, Mrs. 

phone: +41 (0)31 631 59 58 

annelies.neuenschwander@ 

istb.unibe.ch 

Knowledge and 



phone: + 41 (0)31 631 59 68 

lutz.nolte@istb.unibe.ch 




Thoeny Harriet, Prof. 

Inselspital Bern 

Address 


ETHZ - Bildverarbeitung 

Sternwartstr. 7 

8092 Zürich 

phone: + 41 (0)44 632 51 63 

fax: + 41 (0)44 632 11 99 

steinman@vision.ee.ethz.ch 

Web Address 

http://co-me.ch 

Research 

Computer Aided and Image 

Guided Support for the 

Treatment of Neurodegeneration 

and Brain Tumours 

Head: Székely G. 

Baur C., Hirsch S., 

Koumoutsakos P., 

Kroschewski R., Kurtcuoglu V., 

Kuster N., Martin E., 

Poulikakos D., Rudin M., 

Werner B. 

Ophthalmology 

Head: Nelson B. 

Buechler P., Kowal J., 

von Rechenberg B. 

Patient Specific Intervention 

Planning in CMF Surgery 

Head: Zeilhofer H.F. 

Baur C., Cattin P., Gross M., 

Juergens P., Kowal J., 

Mazza E., Reyes Aguirre M., 

Scheffler K., Vetter T., 

von Rechenberg B. 

Oto-Rhino-Laryngology 

Head: Caversaccio M. 

Baur C., Ferguson S., 

Weber S., Zheng G. 

The Virtual Skeleton Database 

Head: Büchler P., Nolte L.-P., 

Pfahrer M., Reyes Aguirr, M., 

Székely G., Tannast M., 

Thali M., Vetter T., Weber S. 

Heads of Individual Projects and Key Researchers 

Amstutz Christoph, Dr. 

Baur Charles, Dr. 

Bozinov Oliver, Dr. 

Büchler Philippe, Dr. 

Cattin Philippe, Prof. 

Caversaccio Marco, Prof. 

Ferguson Stephen, PD Dr. 

Gross Markus, Prof. 

Hirsch Sven, Dr. 

Jürgens Philipp, Dr. 

Koumoutsakos Petros, Prof. 

Kowal Jens, Prof. 

Kroschewski Ruth, Dr. 

Kurtcuoglu Vartan, Dr. 

Kuster Niels, Prof. 

Martin Ernst, Prof. 

Mazza Edoardo, Prof. 

Nelson Bradley, Prof. 

Neufeld Esra, Dr. 

Nitsch, Roger, Prof. 


Pfahrer Marcel, Prof. 

Poulikakos Dimos, Prof. 

Reyes Aguirre Mauricio, Dr. 

Rudin Markus, Prof. 

Rudolph Tobias, Dr. 

Scheffler Klaus, Prof. 

Siebenrock Klaus, Prof. 

Spyros Kollias, Dr. 

Szczerba Dominik, Dr. 



Application of Statistical 

Shape Modelling to Robot 

Assisted Spine Surgery 

H: Baur C. 

A Statistical Shape 

Modeling Platform for 

Medical Applications 

H: Lüthi M., Zheng G. 

Ophthalmology, Universitätsspital Zürich 

Robotic Systems Laboratory, EPF Lausanne 

Neurochirurgische Klinik, Universitätsspital Zürich 

Institute for Surgical Technology & Biomechanics, Universität Bern 

Medical Image Analysis Center, Universität Basel 

Universitätsklinik für Hals-, Nasen- und Ohrenkrankheiten, 

Kopf- und Halschirurgie, Inselspital Bern 

Institut für Biomechanik, ETH Zürich 

Institute for Visual Computing, ETH Zürich 

Institut für Bildverarbeitung, ETH Zürich 

Klinik für Kiefer- und Gesichtschirurgie, Kantonsspital Basel 

Computational Science & Engineering Laboratory, ETH Zürich 

Universitätsklinik für Augenheilkunde, Inselspital Bern 

Institut für Biochemie, ETH Zürich 

Institut für Energietechnik, ETH Zürich 

IT‘IS Laboratories, Zürich 

MR-Zentrum, Kinderspital Zürich 

Institut für Mechanische Systeme, ETH Zürich 

Institut für Robotik und intelligente Systeme, ETH Zürich 


Psychiatry Research, Universität Zürich 


Berner Fachhochschule, Biel 

Institut für Energietechnik, ETH Zürich 


Institut für Biomedizinische Technik, ETH Zürich 

Ophthalmology, Inselspital Bern 

Radiologische Physik, Kantonsspital Basel 

Klinik für Orthopädische Chirurgie, Inselspital Bern 

Neuroradiologie, Universitätsspital Zürich 



Székely Gabor, Prof. 

Tannast Moritz, Dr. 

Thali Michael, Prof. 

Vetter Thomas, Prof. 

von Rechenberg Brigitte, Prof. 

Weber Stefan, Prof. 

Weller Michael, Prof. 

Werner Beat 

Zeilhofer Hans-Florian, Prof. 

Zheng Guoyan, Dr. 


Davies Brian, Prof. 

Freysinger Wolfgang, Prof. 

Hirsch Jan, Prof. 

Kikinis Ron, Prof. 

Metaxas Dimitris, Prof. 

Taylor Chris, Prof. 

Thorpe Chuck, Prof. 

Troccaz Jocelyne, Dr. 

Topics 

Improving medical image 

guidance, surgical navigation 

and patient specific 

treatment through information 

technology are the 

primary goals of the Co-Me 

network. The methodological 

strengths of the NCCR 

are simulation, navigation 

and instrumentation, including 

robotics. In its third 

phase Co-Me concentrates 

on the challenges of computer 

aided surgery around 

the head (CAS-H). It relies 

on selected clinical problems 

for driving the technological 

development and 

strengthening the clinical 

and commercial translation. 

The key questions 

relate to the reliability and 

accuracy of intervention 

procedures, tissue protection 

with regard to minimal 

invasive surgery, reduction 

of tool size and therapy 

development for clinical 

routine. 

A further objective is to 

consolidate the structural 

impact on the national 

science landscape and to 

phase-out the NCCR into 

a self-sufficient, collateral 

spin-off network. 

Institut für Bildverarbeitung, ETH Zürich 

Klinik für Orthopädische Chirurgie, Inselspital Bern 

Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Universität Zürich 

Graphics & Vision Research Group, Universität Basel 

Departement für Pferde, Tierspital der Universität Zürich 


Neurologie, Universitätsspital Zürich 

MR-Zentrum, Kinderspital Zürich 

Klinik für Kiefer- und Gesichtschirurgie, Kantonsspital Basel 


Imperial College London, Mechanical Engineering, London, GB 

Universitätsklinik für Hals-, Nasen- und Ohrenheilkunde, 

Innsbruck, AT 

University Hospital Uppsala, Dept. of Oral and Maxillofacial 

Surgery, Uppsala, SE 

Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 

Boston, US 

University of Pennsylvania, Computer and Information Science, 

Philadelphia, US 

University of Manchester, Division of Imaging Science & Biomedical 

Engineering, Manchester, GB 

Clarkson University, Potsdam N.Y., USA 

Laboratoire TIMC/IMAG, Université Joseph Fourier, La Tronche, FR 


Programmes 

• BOTMED 

• FP7-PEOPLE-2012-ITN (EU-FP7) 

• HEAR-EU 

• NANOMA 

• SpineFX 


• AO Research Institute, Davos, CH 

• Asclepios group, INRIA, Sophia 

Antipolis, FR 

• CAOS Lab, Vanderbilt University, 

Nashville, US 

• CMF Division, Medical 

University Warsaw, Katowice, PL 

• Dept. of CMF Surgery, University 

of Berne, Bern, CH 

• Dept. of computing, Imperial 

College, London, GB 

• Dept. of Molecular, Cell & 

Developmental Biology, University 

of California, Los Angeles, US 

• Dept. Oral and CMF Surgery, St. 

John’s Hospital, Genk, BE 

• Dept. Orthodontics, University 

North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US 

• Dept. Orthodontics, University of 

Aarhus, Aarhus, DK 


Berne, Berne, CH 


Hallym, Seoul, KR 

• Department of Cranio- 

Maxillofacial Surgery, 

University for Medicine 

and Pharmacy, Klausenburg, RO 

• Department of Oral and 

Maxillofacial Surgery, Fudong 

University, Shanghai, CN 


Maxillofacial Surgery, Groupe 

Hospitalier Salpêtrière Paris, FR 


Maxillofacial Surgery, 

University of Hyderabad, IN 

• Department of Radiology, 

University Hospital of Geneva, 

Geneva, CH 

• Department of Surgical Sciences, 

University Hospital Uppsala, SE 

• ESPCI ParisTech, FR 

• Faculty of Dentistry, Department 

of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 

and Traumatology, Sao Paulo 

State University, Araraquara, BR 

• Faculty of Mechanical Eningeering 

and Naval Architecture, 

University of Zagreb, Zagreb, HR 

Members of the Women Advisory Board 

Burckhardt Kathrin, Dr. 

Institut für Bildverarbeitung, ETH Zürich, CH 

Landmann-Suter Regine, Prof. Departement Forschung, Kantonsspital/Universität Basel, Basel, CH 



Steinmann Ruth 


Thoeny Harriet, Prof. 

Institut für Diagnostische Radiologie, Inselspital Bern, CH 

Vogt Vreni, Mrs. 

Project Office NCCR CO-ME, ETH Zürich, CH 

Von Rechenberg Brigitte, Prof. Pferdeklinik, Universität Zürich, CH 


Computer Aided and 

Image Guided Medical Interventions 


• Faculty of Medicine, Imperial 

College, London, GB 

• Faculty of Odontostomatology, 

University of Health Science, 

Phnom Penh, KH 

• Graduate School of Information, 

Technische Universität München, 

Munich, DE 

• Hals-, Nasen-, Ohrenklinik, 

Kantonsspital Luzern, Luzern, CH 

• Harvard Medical School, 

Boston, US 

• Institute for Postgraduate Dental 

Education, Jönköping, SE 

• Institute of Pharmaceutical 

Sciences, ETH Zürich, Zurich, CH 

• IT’IS, Zurich, CH 

• Kiefer- und Plastische 

Gesichtschirurgie, 


• Klinik für Plastische Chirurgie, 

Klinikum rechts der Isar der TU 

München, DE 

• Materials Science and Technology, 

EMPA, St. Gallen, CH 

• Microsoft Research, Cambridge, GB 

• Molecular Cell Biology, Paul 

Scherrer Institute, Villigen, CH 

• Oncology group, Italian Hospital, 


• Ophthalmology Surgery, Animal 

Hospital, Zurich, CH 

• Oral & Macillofacial Surgery, 

University of Amiens, Amiens, FR 

• ORL, Inselspital, Bern, CH 

• Orthopädie, Universitäts-Kinderspital 

beider Basel, Basel, CH 

• Robotics Lab, 


• Stanford School of Medicine, 

Radiological Sciences Unit, 


• Sunnybrook Health Sciences 

Centre, Toronto, CA 

• Swiss Eye Research Foundation, 

Reinach, CH 

• University of Silesi, Katowice, PL 


• Advanced Osteotomy Tools - 

AOT AG, Basel, CH 

• Aeon Scientific AG, Zurich, CH 

• ANSYS Inc. France, Lyon, FR 

• Atracsys SARL, Bottens, CH 

• Axios, Oldenburg, DE 

• Baur SA, St-Aubin-Sauges, CH 

• Bayrisches Laserzentrum, 

Erlangen, DE 

• Bien-Air Surgery SA, 

Le Noirmont, CH 

• Bracco Research Laboratory, 

Geneva, CH 

• Cadfem GmbH, 

Grafing b. München, DE 

• Camlog Holding AG, Basel, CH 

• CAScination AG, Bern, CH 

• Crisalix Sarl, Lausanne, CH 

• CSM Instruments SA, Peseaux, CH 

• Disney Research Zurich, 

Zurich, CH 

• EnHatch, Lindhurst NJ, US 

• Force Dimension, Lausanne, CH 

• GE Global Research Center, 

Munich, DE 


Co-Me has achieved an 

international reputation 

and visibility which is also 

represented by the performance 

figures for research 

(950 publications with a 

field impact index significantly 

above world average: 

1.8), for knowledge 

and technology transfer (90 

industrial partners, 31 patents 

and 11 start-up companies) 

as well as for education 

and career building. 

Research 

During the past eleven 

years of Co-Me R&D activities, 

advanced cutting 

edge technologies and new 

high-fidelity surgical tools 

for training, planning, and 

intraoperative support 

have been developed. Their 

focus is on the translation 

to the practical use in the 

operating room. 

Some highlights are: 

• A successful first set of 

clinical trials, validating 

the usage of MR-guided 

focused ultrasound technology 

for the treatment of 

functional neurological disorders. 

This novel technology 

now opens up new horizons 

allowing to develop 

non-invasive intervention 

procedures for a variety of 

brain diseases including 

brain tumors. 

• The virtual reality based 

hysteroscopy training system 

resulting in the startup 

Virtamed which won 

the first place at the Swiss 

venture kick seed capital 

competition. A collaboration 

agreement with Simbionix 

allows the world-wide 

distribution of the HystSim 

training system. 

• A method for orthopedic 

implant design based on 

the statistical description of 

the human skeleton giving 

rise to high interest of implant 

industry. 

• A planning and navigation 

module for cranio-maxillofacial 

osteotomies in daily 

clinical routine application 

at the University Hospital 

Basel supported by the AR- 

TORG Center/ISTB Bern. 

Knowledge and 


The close cooperation between 

research labs and 

clinical sites guarantees the 

effective transfer of scientific 

results to patient care. 


The NCCR Co-Me is training 

undergraduates, graduate 

students, and postdoctoral 

fellows for future 

leadership roles in teaching, 

research, and industry. 

A main achievement 

in the field of education is 

the successful establishment 

of Master‘s programs 

in biomedical engineering 

at ETH Zürich and the Universities 

of Bern and Basel, 

educating a continuously 

rising number of students 

every year. 

Several surgical seminars 

were established on a continuous 

regular basis as a 

platform for the transfer 

of Co-Me technologies into 

the clinical practice. 

Structural Impact 

In September 2011 the Swiss 

Institute for Computer Assisted 

Surgery (SICAS) was 

launched. SICAS will carry 

out a step-by-step take over 

and extend the activities of 

the NCCR Co-Me which 

will come to an end by mid 

2013. 

SICAS was created to continue 

the success story 

of the Co-Me research 

network as a platform 

for cutting-edge science 

in medical technologies, 

translational medicine, 

knowledge transfer, clinical 

usage and enterprises. 

It will steer follow-up projects 

and exploit achievements 

and competence. 




SNSF funding 1 4 575 000 2 000 000 1 500 000 1 760 000 9 835 000 34 


institution 2 1 363 114 1 249 805 1 250 925 1 360 600 5 224 444 18 


participants 

2 757 609 2 795 537 3 106 159 2 909 989 11 569 294 40 


Total 9 059 581 6 812 498 6 952 152 6 377 719 29 201 950 100 

Personnel 4 

Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

DE GR PL US IN 

Management 3.5 5 4 57 3 43 5 1 0 0 0 0 1 






Other staff 14 6 43 8 57 13 1 0 0 0 0 0 

Total 159.50 29 18 134 82 75 27 7 6 6 4 39 

• General Electric Health Care, 

Milwaukee, US 

• InSightec - Image Guided 

Treatment Ltd., Tirat Carmel, IL 

• Intellect Medical, Cleveland, US 

• IntroMedic, Seoul, KR 

• KUKA Roboter GmbH, 

Neuenhof, CH 

• Materialise GmbH, 

Pfaffenhofen, DE 

• MED-EL, Starnberg, DE 

• Mentor Corporation, 

Santa Barbara, CA, US 

• Minolta GmbH, Langenhagen, DE 

• Miracor Medical Systems GmbH/ 

Miracor Sales & Marketing GmbH, 

Baar, CH 

• Naviswiss AG, Laufen, CH 

• Oertli Instrumente AG, 

Berneck, CH 

• Orangedental GmbH&Co. KG, 

Biberach, DE 

• Pantec Biosolutions AG, 

• Polymed Medical Center, 

Glattbrugg, CH 

• pSivida Inc., Watertown MA, US 

• Sensoptic SA, Losone, CH 

• SPEAG, Zürich, CH 

• Steinbichler Optotechnik GmbH, 

Neubeuern, DE 

• Straumann AG, Basel, CH 

• Synthes AG, Oberdorf, CH 

• Virtamed AG, Zürich, CH 

• Zurich MedTech (ZMT), 

Zurich, CH 

Others 

• Focused Ultrasound Surgery 

Foundation, Charlottesville, US 

• openFOAM development group, 

Winnersh, GB 


Totals 





1 


2 


3 



4 


5 


6 


7 



8 


9 






Bucholz Richard, Prof. 

Division of Neurosurgery, St. Louis University 

School of Medicine, US 

Duncan James, Prof. 

Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University School 

of Medicine, New Haven, US 

Hirzinger Gerd, Prof. 

Institut für Robotik und Mechatronik, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, DE 

Jolesz Ferenc A., Prof. 

Harvard University, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, US 

Lorensen Bill 

General Electric Corporate R&D, Niskayuna NY, US 

Steiger Jürg, Prof. 





phone: + 41 (0)31 308 23 49, fax: + 41 (0)31 305 29 71, 



Financial Valuation 

and Risk Management 

NCCR FINRISK 




November 1, 2001 


Director 

Habib Michel, Prof. 

phone: +41 (0)44 634 25 07 

michel.habib@bf.uzh.ch 


Gibson Brandon Rajna, Prof. 

phone: +41 (0)22 379 89 83 

rajna.gibson@unige.ch 

Loderer Claudio, Prof. 

phone: +41 (0)31 631 37 75 

claudio.loderer@ifm.unibe.ch 

Administrative Director 

Jaeger Eckart, Mr. 

phone: + 41 (0)44 634 39 55 

jaeger@nccr-finrisk.ch 

Research 

Hens Thorsten, Prof. 

Knowledge and 


Vanini Paolo, Prof. 


Degeorge François, Prof. 

Morellec Erwan, Prof. 

Paolella Marc, Prof. 


Ravanelli Claudia, Dr. 

International Scientific Council 

Loubergé Henri, Prof. 

Communication 

Eckart Jaeger, Mr. 

Address 


Voltastrasse 59 

8044 Zurich 

phone: + 41 (0)44 634 39 55 

fax: + 41 (0)44 634 56 37 

admin@nccr-finrisk.ch 

Web Address 

www.nccr-finrisk.ch 


• Folder “NCCR FINRISK” 

• ”FINRISK Letter“ 

• Booklet “Risk and Risky 

Management” 

• Booklet “Challenges to 

Executive Compensation” 

• Booklet “FINRISK – 

Competence in Finance” 

Research 

Module “Asset Pricing 

and Portfolio Management” 

Coordinator: Trojani F. 

Behavioural finance 

Head: Hens T. 

Macro risk, capital flows 

and asset pricing in 

international finance 

H: Bacchetta P. 

New methods in theoretical 

and empirical asset pricing 

H: Trojani F. 

Dynamic Asset Pricing 

H: Filipovic D. 

Module “Corporate Finance” 

Coordinator: Fahlenbrach R. 

Corporate finance, 

market structure and the 

theory of the firm 

H: Habib M. 

Heads of Individual Research Projects, Modules and Supervisors 

of Doctoral School 

Bacchetta Philippe, Prof. 

Barone-Adesi Giovanni, Prof. 

Degeorge François, Prof. 

Fahlenbrach Ruediger, Prof. 

Filipovic Damir, Prof. 

Gibson Brandon Rajna, Prof. 

Habib Michel, Prof. 

Hens Thorsten, Prof. 

Kuebler Felix, Prof. 

Mancini Loriano, Prof. 

Morellec Erwan, Prof. 

Paolella Marc, Prof. 

Rochet Jean-Charles, Prof. 

Scaillet Olivier, Prof. 

Schweizer Martin, Prof. 

Trojani Fabio, Prof. 


Brennan Michael, Prof. 

Duffie Darrell, Prof. 

Gourieroux Christian, Prof. 

Pagano Marco, Prof. 

Schachermayer Walter, Prof. 

Stulz René, Prof. 

Dynamic corporate finance: 

theory and tests 

H: Morellec E. 

Module “Risk Management” 

Coordinator: Mancini L. 

Credit risk and non-standard 

sources of risk in finance 

H: Gibson Brandon, R. 

Volatility and stability 

in financial markets 

H: Barone-Adesi G. 

Module “Quantitative 

Methods in Finance” 

Coordinator: Scaillet O. 

Mathematical methods in 

financial risk management 

H: Schweizer M. 

Financial econometrics 

for risk management 

H: Scaillet O. 

Computational financial 

economics 

H: Kuebler F. 

Ecole des HEC, Université de Lausanne 

Facoltà di Scienze Economiche, Università 

della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano 

Facoltà di Scienze Economiche, Università 

della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano 

Swiss Finance Institute at EPF Lausanne 


Ecole des HEC, Université de Genève 

Institut für Banking und Finance, Universität Zürich 







Ecole des HEC, Université de Genève 

Departement Mathematik, ETH Zürich 

Facoltà di Scienze Economiche, Università della Svizzera Italiana, 

Lugano 

University of California, Los Angeles, US 

Stanford University, California, US 

University of Toronto, CA and CREST, Paris, FR 

University of Napoli, IT 

Universität Wien, AT 

Ohio State University, Colombus, US 

Module 

“Banking and Regulation” 

Coordinator: Rochet J-C. 

Systemic risk and dynamic 

contract theory 

H: Rochet J-C. 

Transfer projects ( strong 


Capital adequacy, valuation, 

and portfolio selection for insurance 

companies 

H: Farkas E. W. 

Programme 

Swiss Doctoral School 

in Finance 

Supervisor: Degeorge F., 

Morellec, E. and Paolella, M. 


Topics 

Assessing risks and modelling 

their impact on 

agents’ micro- and macroecono 

mic decision-making 

processes represents the 

central theme that unites 

the research topics covered 

by FINRISK. Thus, the 

main research questions 

during its final phase III 

(2009-13) relate to the analysis 

and the modelling of 

risks. They are examined 


In the following we identify 

four main areas in which 

substantial achievements 

have been generated since 

the start of FINRISK in 

2001. 

Research 

Within eleven years of ope - 

ration, FINRISK has led 

to the competitive establishment 

of 12 research 

projects in areas of great 

significance to the financial 

services industry. Our 

research output further 

comprises more than 800 

working papers and 500 

publications in internationally 

renowned academic 

journals. For detailed information 

on our research 

achievements please visit 

our website. 


FINRISK promotes a mutually 

beneficial dialogue 

between academics and 

practitioners interested in 

the application of modern 

finance. Through targeted 

publications as well as the 

organization of joint conferences, 

workshops and 

collaborative projects FIN- 

RISK has strengthened the 

cooperation between the 

Swiss universities and the 

financial services industry. 

Each year, the annual 

meeting organized together 

with the Swiss Finance Institute, 

attracts more than 

200 practitioners and features 

presentations by both 

researchers and practitioners 

on topics of central interest 

to the finance community. 

Education 

A close cooperation between 

the doctoral programmes 

in Geneva, Lausanne, 

Lugano and Zurich 

has been established over 

the past years. We now 

offer a large variety of specialised 

doctoral courses 

in finance to more than 

100 students from Swiss 

universities. Furthermore, 

the annual Swiss Doctoral 

Workshop in Finance provides 

an ideal forum for our 

in five FINRISK research 

modules as follows: 

– Asset Pricing and Portfolio 

Management: How 

do risks affect asset prices 

and investors’ portfolio 

decisions? 

– Corporate Finance: How 

do risks affect corporations’ 

fundamental decisions? 

– Risk Management: How 

should financial and nonfinancial 

risks be quantified 

and managed? 

– Quantitative Methods in 

Finance: Which are the 

mathematical, sta tistical 

and computational tools 

that are necessary to provide 

meaningful answers 

to the above cited research 

questions? 

– Banking and Regulation: 

How to prevent systemic 

crises? 

students to present their 

research to a mix of local 

and international faculty. 

Ultimately, our efforts have 

led to the launching of the 

Swiss Finance Institute 

PhD program in finance. 

Structural Effects 

The activities of FINRISK 

have contributed to the fact 

that several Swiss universities 

have declared Finance 

to be one of their top priority 

research areas. In 

2006, the Swiss Bankers 

Association, recognising 

the importance of research 

and high level education 

in finance for the reputation 

of the Financial Centre 

Switzerland, has launched 

the Swiss Finance Institute 

that aims to secure and 

extend the research and 

educational efforts of 

FINRISK in the long-term, 

see also www.swissfinanceinstitute.ch. 


www.nccr-finrisk.ch 



• A. Razmadze Mathematical 

Institute, Georgian Academy of 

Sciences, Tbilisi, GE 

• Booth School of Business, 


• Business School, Columbia 


• Business School, University of 

Chicago at urbana Champaign, 

Indiana, US 

• Business School, University of 

Minnesota, US 

• California Institute of Technology, 

Pasadena, US 

• Center for Computational 

Research in Economics and 

Management Science, MIT School 

of Management, Cambridge, US 

• Département de Finance, 

École des Hautes Études 

Commerciales, Montréal, CA 

• Département de Sciences 

Économiques, Université de 

Montréal, Montréal, CA 

• Département mathématiques, 

Université Paris Dauphine, FR 

• Department of Neurophysics, 

University of Marburg, DE 

• Department of Economics, 

London School of Economics 

and Political Science, GB 


University of Napoli, IT 


University of Siena, IT 

• Department of Finance, 

Bocconi University, Milan, IT 


Boston University, Boston, US 

• Department of Finance, California 

Institute of Technology, Caltech, US 

• Department of Finance, Carnegie 

Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US 

• Department of Finance, Columbia 



Duke University, Durham, US 

• Department of Finance, George 

Mason University, Fairfax, US 


Norwegian School of Economics 

and Business Administration, 

Bergen, NO 

• Department of Finance, Northwestern 

University, Chicago, US 

• Department of Finance, University 

of California, Berkeley, US 


University of Minnesota, US 


University of Rochester, US 



• Department of Finance,Washington 

University, St. Louis, US 

• Department of Mathematics and 

Statistics, Boston University, US 

• Dipartimento di Matematica, 

Politecnico di Torino, IT 

• Division of the Humanities and Social 

Sciences, Caltech, Pasadena, US 

• ENSAE, Paris, FR 

• Faculty of Mathematics, University 

of Vienna, AT 

• Finance, UCLA Anderson School 

of Management, Los Angeles, US 

• Financial and Actuarial 

Mathematics, Vienna University 

of Technology, AT 

• Finance Department, Columbia 

Business School, New York, US 

• Finance Department, 

School of Business, Madison, US 

• Finance Department, 

The London Business School, GB 

• Fisher College of Business, 

Ohio State University, US 

• Graduate School of Business, 


• Graduate School of Business, 



• Haas School of Business, University 

of California, Berkeley, US 

• Harvard Business School, Harvard 

University, Massachusetts, US 

• Institut für Mathematik, 

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, DE 

• Institute of Finance and Accounting, 

London Business School, GB 

• Institute of Mathematics, Fudan 

University, Shanghai, CN 

• Institut de Finance, Université 

Paris-Dauphine, FR 


Technische Universität Berlin, DE 

• Kellogg School of Management, 

Northwestern University, 

Evanston,US 

• Kennedy School, Harvard 

University, Cambridge, US 

• Laboratoire de Mathématiques, 

Université Blaise Pascal, 


• Laboratoire Finance-Assurance, 

CREST, Paris, FR 

• LMU Mathematics Institute, LMU 

München, DE 

• Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche 

Fakultät, Christian- 

Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, DE 

• Manchester School of Accounting and 

Finance, University of Manchester, GB 

• Paris School of Economics, FR 

• Research Department, European 

Central Bank, Frankfurt, DE 

• Risk Management and Insurance, 

Vienna University of Economics 

and Business, AT 

• School of Mathematics, 

University of Leeds, GB 

• School of Management, Boston 

University, US 

• School of Management, HEC Paris, FR 

• Sciences Po, Paris, FR 

• Simon School of Business, University 

of Rochester, New York,US 

• The Robert Day School of 

Economics and Finance, Claremont 

McKenna College, California, US 

• Toulouse School of Economics, 

University of Toulouse, FR 

• Vienna Graduate School of 

Finance, Vienna University of 

Economics and Business, AT 

• Warwick Business School, Warwick 

University, Coventry, GB 


• Associazione Bancaria Ticinese, 

Lugano, CH 

• Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) 

Paribas, London, GB 

• Caisse des Dépôts et 

Consignations (CDC) Ixis Capital 

Markets, Paris, FR 

• Cédric Bancaire Privée, Geneva, CH 

• Cortal Consors S.A., Paris, FR 

• Credit Suisse Group, Zurich, CH 

• CSS Krankenversicherungen, 

Luzern, CH 

• LGT Capital Management AG, 

Zürich, CH 

• Standard and Poors, London, GB 

• Swiss Life, Zurich, CH 

• Swissquote Bank SA, Gland, CH 

• UBS AG, Zurich, CH 

• Wilshire Associates, Los Angeles, US 

• Zurich Financial Services, Zürich, CH 

Others 

• Ausbildungszentrum für 

Experten der Kapitalanlage 

(AZEK), Bülach, CH 

• Banque de France, Paris, FR 

• Banca della Svizzera Italiana (BSI) 

Gamma Foundation, Lugano, CH 

• Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt a. 

Main, DE 

• Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 

US 

• Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 

US 

• International Monetary Fund, 


• P&K Stiftung, Vitznau, CH 

• Swiss National Bank, Bern, CH 

Financial Valuation 

and Risk Management 




SNSF funding 1 2 300 000 2 100 000 2 100 000 70 000 6 570 000 38 


institution 2 969 361 1 069 293 1 574 761 859 508 4 472 923 26 


participants 

1 020 500 1 314 501 1 327 593 30 000 3 692 594 22 


Total 4 836 388 4 829 446 5 489 242 1 915 908 17 070 984 100 

Personnel 3 

1 


2 


3 


4 


5 


6 



7 


8 





Foray Dominique, Prof. (Chair) 

Anderson Ron, Prof. 

Errunza Vihang R., Prof. 

Geman Hélyette, Prof. 

Gromb Denis, Prof. 

Linton Oliver B., Prof. 

Servaes Henri, Prof. 

Sørensen Michael, Prof. 




Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

DE IT FR CN US 

Management 3.2 4 6 43 8 57 5 2 2 2 0 1 2 






Other staff 5 4 80 1 20 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 

Total 160.20 38 22 133 78 44 27 26 19 6 5 49 


Totals 






Department of Finance, London School of Economics, GB 

Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, CA 

School of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, University 

of London, GB 

INSEAD, FR 

Faculty of Economics, Cambridge University, GB 

London Business School, GB 

Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 






The Power 

and Meaning of Images 

NCCR Iconic Criticism 





Research 

Image Boundaries and Image 

Sequences 

Head: A. Beyer 

Notation and Script 

Heads: B. Schellewald, 

M. Schmidt 

Ornament 

Heads: C. Spies, V. Beyer 

Perception, Implicit Visual 

Knowledge and Cognition 

Heads: M. Hagner, 

A. Schubbach 


Beyer Andreas, Prof. 

Bohn Cornelia, Prof. 

Gess Nicola, Prof. 

Hagner Michael, Prof. 

Hinterwaldner Inge, Dr. 

Holl Ute, Prof. 

Merz Martina, Prof. 

Renner Michael, Prof. 

Schellewald Barbara, Prof. 

Schmidt Matthias, Prof. 

Schubbbach Arno, Prof. 

Spies Christian, Dr. 

Ubl Ralph, Prof. 

Vetter Thomas, Prof. 

Van der Meulen Nicolaj 

Vischer Theodora, Dr. 

Image and Sociality 

Head: C. Bohn 

Image and Model 

Heads: M. Merz, T. Vetter, I. 

Hinterwaldner 

Design Process 

Heads: M. Renner, 

N. van der Meulen 

Image Theory 

Head: G. Boehm 

Art and the Arts 

Head: R. Ubl 

The Visuality of Baroque 

Opera 

Head: N. Gess 

Fields and Frequencies in Cinematic 

Perception 

Head: U. Holl 

„Graduate School - 

Image as Artifact“ 

1.1.2012 - 31.12.2014 

Supervisor: A. Schubbach 

Department of the History of Art, University of Basel 

Soziologisches Seminar, Universität Luzern 

Department of German Studies, University of Basel 

Chair for Science Studies, ETH Zürich 


Department of Media Studies, University of Basel 

Soziologisches Seminar, Universität Luzern 

Department Visual Communication, University of Art and Design, 

Basel 


Departement of Musicology, University of Basel 

NCCR Iconic Criticism, University of Basel 



Computer Science Department, University of Basel 

Departement Visual Communication, University of Art and Design, 

Basel 

Schaulager, Münchenstein/Basel 


Director 

Ubl Ralph, Prof. 

Managing Director 

Budelacci Orlando, Dr. 

phone: + 41 (0)61 267 18 05 


Dunkel Helen, Mrs. 

phone: + 41 (0)61 267 18 03 


Daria Kolacka, Dr. 

phone: + 41 (0)61 267 18 10 


Freiberger Heike, Dr. 

phone: + 41 (0)61 267 18 10 


Freiberger Heike, Dr. 

Knowledge 

and Technology Transfer 

Budelacci Orlando, Dr. 

phone: + 41 (0)61 267 18 05 


Schubbach Arno, Prof. 

phone: +41 (0)61 267 18 61 

Address 

eikones/NCCR Iconic Criticism 


Rheinsprung 11 

4051 Basel 

phone: + 41 (0)61 267 18 10 

fax: + 41 (0)61 267 18 11 

bildkritik@unibas.ch 


• Homepage 

Web Address 

www.eikones.ch 

www.rheinsprung11.ch 


The Power 

and Meaning of Images 

NCCR Iconic Criticism 


Programmes 

• Forschergruppe «Bild – Schrift – 

Zahl», «Das Technische Bild» 

• Forschergruppe 

“Das wissende Bild” 

• Graduiertenkolleg 

«Bild Körper Medium. Eine 

anthropologische Perspektive» 


«Körperinszenierungen» 


«Mediale Historiographien» 

• SFB/FK 427 

• SFB 447 

• SFB/FK 615 

• SFB 626 

• SFB 447 


• Ägyptologisches Institut, 

Universität Leipzig, DE 

• Center for Art and Media, 

Karlsruhe, DE 

• Central Institute of History Art, 

Munich, DE 

• Centre for Architecture, 

Canadian Centre for Architecture, 

Montreal, CA 

• Centro Internazionale di Studi 

di Architettura Andrea Palladi, 

Vicenza, IT 

• Datenströme GbR, Berlin, DE 

• Department of Adult and 

Continuing Education, 

University of Glasgow, GB 

• Department of Art History, 


• Department of Egyptology, 

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, IL 

• Department of German, 


Chicago, US 

• Dipartimento di Discipline storiche, 

artistiche, archeologiche e geografiche, 

Università di Verona, IT 

• Ecole des Hautes Etudes en 

Sciences Sociales (EHESS), 

Paris, FR 

• Fachgebiet Formale Modelle, 

Logik und Programmierung, 

Berlin, DE 

• Facultad de Arquitectura, 

Diseño y Urbanismo, 


• Fakultät Bildende Kunst, 

Hochschule der Künste Berlin, DE 

• Fakultät Medien, 

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, DE 

• Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum 

für Kulturtechnik, Berlin, DE 

• Institut für Ägyptologie, 


• Institut für deutsche Sprache 

und Literatur, Humboldt- 

Universität Berlin, DE 

• Institut für Film- und 

Theaterwissenschaften, 

Freie Universität Berlin, DE 

• Institut für Informatik, 

Humboldt-Universität Berlin, DE 



• Institut für Neuere deutsche 

Literatur, Justus-Liebig- 

Universität, Giessen, DE 

• Institut für Philosophie, 

Technische Universität 

Darmstadt, DE 

Topics 

The digital revolution, 

which has been unfolding 

globally since the beginning 

of the nineties, turns 

the old, inert image into 

an extremely flexible 

instrument that everyone 

can use, serving global 

communication and, 

above all, the generation 

of knowledge. Especially 

in the natural sciences, 

many new insights can 

only be realized with iconic 

methods. Images no longer 

illustrate what was first 

thought; they now represent 

an independent mode 

of thinking. 

The knowledge society has 

become a society of images. 

This transformation 

can probably only be compared 

with such epochal 


moments as the invention 

of the printing press or 

the general spread of literacy 

since the eighteenth 

century. Now we are all 

users and producers of 

images – but without necessarily 

understanding 

how they create meaning, 

how their power is generated, 

and what becomes of 

reality when it is understood 

as a function of the 

flexible perspective of the 

image. That is the starting 

point for our project: the 

image-oriented society is 

increasingly dependent on 

iconic criticism if it wants 

to master its problems. 

The paradigm of the image, 

which had not previously 

existed, deserves the scholarly 

attention language 

After completing its setup 

phase and fully consolidating 

its work in the whole 

range of its modules, the 

NCCR Iconic Criticism has 

now established itself as 

a visible, recognized research 

competence center, 

the heart of a network with 

regional, national, and international 

connections. In 

only a few years, the project 

has succeeded in assuming 

a position as one of 

the leading institutions in 

image research. The great 

frequency of its scholarly 

events and publications, including 

a Summer School, 

cooperation with institutions 

all over the world, 

intensive collaboration between 

senior scholars and 

younger researchers, and 

last but not least a Graduate 

School, have made it 

possible to create a firstclass 

interdisciplinary academic 

institution. The projects 

suggested in the first 

proposal have proven successful 

and are now being 

extended, supplemented, 

and developed further. 

The overall project‘s trademark 

is an exciting balance 

between empiricism and 

theory, between individual 

research and a general critical 

interest in images. The 

has received for centuries. 

Linguistics is a matter of 

course; iconic criticism 

must be one, too. The two 

complement each other – 

but only if the particular 

capacity of the image 

can be determined. This 

demands a fundamental 

reorientation, for we are 

used to identifying knowledge 

with language. The 

meaning potentials of the 

image create new openings 

to the present, to history 

and tradition, and into the 

future. An iconic criticism 

that addresses epistemic 

principles and exemplary 

applications is – as mentioned 

above – the task of 

a generation. 

NCCR has a group of all its 

members that meets regularly 

and is dedicated to the 

common interest in basic 

issues of the image and the 

task of „iconic criticism“. 

The project defines itself in 

terms of the overall coherence 

of its results, connecting 

basic research with case 

studies and theories with 

applications. In terms of 

both organization and content, 

the NCCR has steadily 

adapted to new challenges 

and changing situations. 


www.eikones.ch 




SNSF funding 1 875 000 1 875 000 1 875 000 1 875 000 7 500 000 42 


institution 1 839 987 1 174 054 1 309 870 1 109 184 4 433 095 25 


participants 

1 029 102 1 144 952 1 166 000 1 093 000 4 433 054 25 


Total 4 157 976 4 633 496 4 485 370 4 416 184 17 693 026 100 

Personnel 2 

Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

DE AT IT AR BE 

Management 5.0 3 4 36 7 64 5 4 1 1 0 0 1 






Other staff 2 1 50 1 50 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 

Total 80.00 42 49 44 51 21 48 7 6 1 1 8 


Totals 





1 


2 


3 


4 


5 



6 


7 





Varone Frédéric, Prof. (Chair) 

Cohn Danièle, Prof. 

Gamboni Dario, Prof. 

Giesen Bernhard, Prof. 

Huguenin Claire, Prof. 

Jäger Ludwig, Prof. 

Lethen Helmut, Prof. 

te Heesen Anke, Prof. 

Vogel Juliane, Prof. 


UFR de philosophie, Université Paris 1, FR 


Departement of History and Sociology, University of Konstanz, DE 


Lehrstuhl für Deutsche Philologie, RWTH Aachen, DE 

Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Wien, AT 

Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Humboldt Universität 

zu Berlin, DE 

Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz, DE 

• Institut für Philosophie, 


• Institut für Sprach- und 

Kommunikationswissenschaft, 

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische 

Hochschule, Aachen, DE 

• Institut für Vorderasiatische 

Archäologie, Freie Universität 

Berlin, DE 

• Institute of Archaeology 

and Antiquity, 

University of Birmingham, GB 

• Internationales Forschungszentrum 

Kulturwissenschaften (IFK), 

Wien, AT 

• Kulturwissenschaftliches Seminar, 


• Kunstgeschichtliches Institut, 

Universität Bochum, DE 

• Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz, 

Max-Planck-Institut, IT 

• Kunsthistorisches Institut, 

Universität Köln, DE 

• Kunsthistorisches Seminar, 

Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, DE 


Ruhr-Universität Bochum, DE 


Universität Hamburg, DE 

• Leerstoelgroep Theaterwetenschap, 

Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, 

Amsterdam, NL 

• Max-Planck-Institut für 

Hirnforschung, Frankfurt a. M., DE 

• Museo Gregoriano Egizio, 

Vatican Museum, 

Vatican City State (Holy See), VA 


Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 

Berlin, DE 

• Seminar für Archäologie und 

Kulturgeschichte Nordostafrikas, 


• Seminar für Ästhetik, 


• Society of Fellows, Princeton 

University, US 

• Historische Wahrnehmungsformen 

in Text und Bild, 

Universität Leipzig, DE 

• Vakgroep Duits, 

Universiteit Gent, BE 

• Zentrum für Bewegungsforschung, 

Institut für 

Theaterwissenschaft, Berlin, DE 

• Zentrum zur Erforschung der 

Frühen Neuzeit, Johann 

Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität 

Frankfurt a. M., DE 

Others 

• IG Tanz - Tanzbüro Basel, CH 

• Mediathek tanz.ch, Zürich, CH 

• Schaulager, Basel, 

Münchenstein, CH 

• Stiftung Bibliothek 

Werner Oechslin, Einsiedeln, CH 




phone: + 41 (0)31 308 23 49, fax: + 41 (0)31 305 29 71 



International Trade Regulation: 

From Fragmentation to Coherence 

NCCR Trade Regulation 




September 1, 2005 


Director 


thomas.cottier@wti.org 


Christine Kaufmann, Prof. 

Scientific Coordinator 

Brown Susan, Dr. 

susan.brown@wti.org 


Vetter Margrit, Ms. 

margrit.vetter@wti.org 

HR and Financial Coordinator 

Hegi Olivia, Mrs. 

olivia.hegi@wti.org 

IT Administrator 

Steiger Christian, Mr. 

christian.steiger@wti.org 

Librarian 

Stahl Wulfhard 

wulfhard.stahl@wti.org 


Joseph Sandra 

sandra.joseph@wti.org 

Science Editor 

Kaplan Susan, Ms. 

susan.kaplan@wti.org 

Knowledge and 




Lalani Shaheeza 

shaheeza.lalani@iew.unibe.ch 



Communication 

Schwarz Erich 

erich.schwarz@wti.org 

Address 


World Trade Institute 

Hallerstrasse 6 

3012 Bern 

Research 


Trade Governance 

H: Kaufmann C. 

Cluster 1.1 

Judicial Governance: Pushing 

the Research Frontier 

H: Elsig M. 

Cluster 1.2 

Attitudes towards Trade 

Liberalization 

H: Spilker G. 

Cluster 1.3 

Corporate Trade Governance: 

Exploring the Interfaces 

Kaufmann C. 


Preferential Trade and 

Investment 

H: Elsig M. 

Cluster 2.1 

Preferential Trade 

H: Sauvé P. 

Cluster 2.2 

New Challenges in Investment 

Law and Policy 

H: Nadakavukaren K. 


Innovation and Creativity 

in International Trade 

H: Cottier Th. 

Cluster 3.1 

Product Innovation 

H: Aerni Ph. 

Cluster 3.2 

Revisiting Patent Law 

and Policy 

H: Temmerman M. 

Cluster 3.3 

New Technologies and Trade 

Governance 

H: Burri M. 


Trade, Development and 

Migration 

H: Panizzon M. 

Cluster 4.1 

Food Security 

H: Häberli Ch. 

Cluster 4.2 

Multilevel Migration 

Governance: Norm Sequencing 

and Duplication 

H: Lavenex S. 


Trade and Climate Change 

H: Cottier Th. 

Cluster 5.1 

Towards a Principle of 

Common Concern in International 

Economic Law 

H: Karapinar B. 

Cluster 5.2 

Towards Effective Architecture 

and Trade Linkage of the 

International Climate Regime 

H: de Sépibus J. 

Cluster 5.3 

Towards a Framework Energy 

Agreement 

H: Nartova O. 


Impact Assessment 

H: Cadot O. 

Cluster 6.1 

Impact of Trade Liberalization 

on Economic and Political 

Institutions 

H: Oechslin M. 

Cluster 6.2 

Economic Impact Evaluation 

of Trade Policy Measures 

H: Shingal A. 

Cluster 6.3 

Impact of International 

Trade on Intra-National 

Economic Geography 

H: Brülhart M. 

Horizontal Issue 

Multilayered Governance 

H: Oesch M. 

phone: + 41 (0)31 631 30 80 

fax: + 41 (0)31 631 36 30 

http://www.nccr-trade.org 


Topics 


aims to provide a better 

understanding of how the 

world trading system functions 

and to explore the 

sources and drivers of fragmentation 

and coherence. 

The rules and principles of 

the World Trade Organization 

(WTO) provide the 

main institutional framework, 

although it constitutes 

only one of many 

potentially applicable international 

regimes. As international 

trade regulation 

Heads of Individual Work Packages and Clusters 

Aerni Philipp, Dr. 

Food and Agricultural Organization, Rome 

Brühlhart Marius, Prof. 

Department of Economics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne 

Burri Mira, Dr. 

c/o World Trade Institute, Bern 

Cadot Olivier, Prof. 

University of Lausanne, Lausanne 



de Sépibus Joëlle, Dr. 


Elsig Manfred, Prof. 


Häberli Christian, Dr. 


Karapinar Baris, Dr. 


Kaufmann Christine, Prof. Rechtswissenschaftliches Institut, Universität Zürich 

Lavenex Sandra, Prof. 

Politikwissenschaftliches Seminar der Universität Luzern 

Nadakavukaren Schefer Krista, Prof. Faculty of law, University of Basel 

Nartova Olga, Dr. 


Oechslin Manuel, Prof. 

Department of Economics, University of Bern 

Oesch Matthias, Prof. 

European and International Economic Law, University of Bern 

Panizzon Marion, Prof. 


Sauvé Pierre, Mr. 


Shingal Anirudh, Dr. 


Spilker Gabriele, Dr. 

International Political Economy, ETH Zürich 

Temmerman Michelangelo, Dr. NCCR Trade Regulation 

WTI / NCCR International Research Council 

Baltensperger Ernst, Prof. em. 

Drexl Josef, Prof. 

Dupont Cédric, Prof. 

Fink Carsten, Prof. 

Hillman Jennifer, Prof. 

Hoekman Bernard, Prof. 

Hufbauer Gary, Prof. 

Jackson John H., Prof. em. 

Marceau Gabrielle, Prof. 

transcends law and politics, 

the project is based on insights 

from the disciplines 

of law, economics and political 

science. NCCR Trade 

Regulation aims to develop 

long-term solutions and 

offer innovative policy recommendations 

that will improve 

the balance between 

economic and other regulatory 

objectives in an evolving 

architecture of regional 

and multilateral trade rules. 

The research in phase 2 of 

the NCCR Trade Regulation 

involves a global network of 

researchers addressing six 

broad thematic research 

areas: regulatory challenges 

and shifting powers 

in trade governance; preferential 

trade; innovation 

and creativity in international 

trade; trade, development 

and migration; innovative 

responses to trade 

and climate change; and 

impact assessment in international 

trade regulation. 

University of Bern and Study Center Gerzensee, CH 

Director Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property, 

Competition and Tax Law, Munich, DE 

Graduate Institute of International and Development 

Studies (HEID), Geneva, CH 

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva, CH 

World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva CH and German 

Marshall Fund, Washington DC, USA 

International Trade Department of the World Bank, Washington DC, USA 

Peterson Institute of International Economics (IIE), Washington DC, USA 

Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA 

Institute for International Public Law, University of 

Geneva & World Trade Organization (WTO), CH 


(international cooperations only) 

Programmes 

• NRP 64 


• Centre d’Etudes Politiques 

de l’Europe Latine, 

Université de Montpellier, FR 

• Centre for Development and 

Environment, Institute of 

Geography, Bern, CH 

• Centre for Trade Policy and Law, 

Carleton University, Ottawa, CA 

• Chemicals and Waste Management 

Programme, United Nations 

Institute for Training and Research, 

Geneva, CH 

• Climate and Energy Program, 

World Resources Institute, 

Washington D.C, US 

• Climate Change Impacts, 

Adaption and Vulnerability, 

Intergovernmental Panel on 

Climate Change, Geneva, CH 

• Common Law Section/ Faculty 

of Law, University of Ottawa, 

Ottawa, CA 

• Development Strategy and 

Governance Division, International 

Food Policy Research Institute, 


• Ecologic Institute, 

Washington D.C., US 

• Faculty of Law, Cambridge 

University, Cambridge, GB 

• Faculty of Law, University of 

Ottawa, Ottawa, CA 

• Fraunhofer Institut for Media 

Communications, University 

of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, CH 

• Hardware & Timing Section 

Mandate, CERN European 

Organization for Nuclear Research, 

Geneva, CH 

• International Center for 

Agricultural Research in Dry Areas, 

Allepo, SY 

• Institute for Human Rights, 

German Institute for Human 

Rights, Berlin, DE 

• Institute of Mass Communication 

and Media Research, University of 


• Lehrstuhl für Privat- Wirtschaftsund 

Europarecht, University of 


• NCCR North-South, University of 

Bern, CH 

• Regional Coordination Office Horn 

of Africa, NCCR North-South, 

Addis Abeba, ET 


International Trade Regulation: 

From Fragmentation to Coherence 



• ABB, Zurich, CH 

• Die Innovationsgesellschaft, 

St. Gallen, CH 

• Swissgrid, Frick, CH 

• UBS, Zurich, CH 

Others 

• Bundesamt für Energie, Bern, CH 

• CEPII, Paris, FR 

• Ecoscientia, Zug, CH 

• International Centre For Trade 

And Sustainable Development, 

Geneva, CH 

• International Institute for 

Sustainable Development, 

Geneva, CH 

• Madariaga/College of Europe 

Foundation, Burssels, BE 

• Swiss Federal Office for the 

Environment, Berne, CH 

• Swiss Federal Office of 

Communication, Biel, CH 

• United Nations Conference 

for Trade and Development, 

Geneva, CH 

• World Intellectual Property 

Organisation, Geneva, CH 


Until fairly recently, international 

trade regulation 

was seen as a specialized 

field of international 

law and economic policy. 

It has insufficient interlinkage 

with other areas 

of law and policy, which 

WTO rules increasingly affect, 

or with the institutions 

that generate these norms. 


is a unique, multidisciplinary 

research network 

that seeks to bring greater 

coherence to the study of 

these fragmented interfaces, 

and looks at them 

from the angles of economics, 

international relations 

and law. The results 

of research undertaken 

and published during the 

first phase of NCCR Trade 

Regulation were published 

as The Prospects of International 

Trade Regulation: 

From Fragmentation 

to Coherence (Cambridge 

University Press 2011). The 

research under the second 

phase builds upon this 

achievement. 

Research accomplishments 

NCCR Trade Regulation is 

structured into six Work 

Packages (WPs), which 

have provided an effective 

framework for research and 

will continue to do so for the 

remainder of the second 

phase and during the third 

phase of the NCCR. 

We have added numerous 

articles and book chapters 

to our impressive list of 

publications. The most recent 

addition is the article 

by Manfred Elsig (leader of 

WP2) and Mark A. Pollack 

(Temple University, USA) 

“Agents, trustees, and international 

courts: The politics 

of judicial appointment 

at the World Trade Organization”, 

in the European 

Journal of International 

Relations. 

The annual World Trade 

Forum (WTF) continues to 

showcase work done within 

the framework of the NCCR 

and in cooperation with 

third parties. This year’s 

WTF on the Rule of Law 

in Monetary Affairs: Lessons 

from the Trade Field, 

will as usual, form the basis 

for an edited volume to be 

published by Cambridge 

University Press. 


and affiliations 

The WTI/NCCR is now 

midway through its fouryear 

academic cooperation 

project with the Swiss State 

Secretariat for Economic 

Affairs (SECO) in collaboration 

with universities in 

Peru, South Africa and Vietnam, 

and has welcomed 

two new partners - the 

University of Chile and the 

Universitas Pelita Harapan 

(Indonesia). Research 

fellowships, joint research 

projects, conferences and 

workshops are integrating 

foreign researchers into the 

work of NCCR Trade Regulation. 

In the long-term 

goal, the intention is to establish 

the foundations for 

a sustainable and productive 

network of academic 

cooperation to provide the 

rigorously trained experts 

needed to address the challenges 

of international 

trade regulation. 

A team of NCCR researchers 

has obtained a grant 

from the Swiss Network 

for International Studies 

(SNIS) to study power shifts 

in the international trade 

arena. The two-year project 

entitled “From rule-takers 

to rule-makers: emerging 

powers in the regulation 

of international trade” will 

investigates the conditions 

under which countries such 

as Brazil, China, India and 

Mexico increasingly convert 

their growing market 

power into regulatory influence 

in the international 

arena. 

The International Investment 

Initiative (I3) continues 

to study the relationship 

between trade and 

investment law and policy. 

Its focus is on research, 

training and advisory services, 

as well establishing a 

forum for dialogue between 

stakeholders. 


Work is under way to set 

up NCCR Trade Regulation’s 

interdisciplinary 

doctoral programme. Together 

with the MILE 

Programme, the Summer 

Academy and the Distance 

Learning Programme, the 

doctoral programme forms 

part of the Graduate School 

of Economic Globalisation 

and Integration. Individual 

learning agreements will 

be concluded between the 

doctoral thesis supervisor 

and the student. These 

agreements will offer each 

student the possibility to 

advance his or her expertise 

in the field of trade 

regulation and economic 

globalisation, for example, 

by participating in doctoral 

seminars, presenting work 

at international conferences 

and to the doctoral 

school. The school will also 

offer students the chance 

to augment their knowledge 

by attending courses 

of the MILE programme 

and Summer Academy. 

The in-house WTI doctoral 

students will be expected 

to cooperate on NCCR and 

other research activities 

of the WTI. It will attract 

students of law, economics 

and international relations, 

with a focus on international 

trade. 

For further information see 

www.nccr-trade.org 




SNSF funding 2 345 000 2 345 000 2 345 000 2 345 000 9 380 000 73 


institution 1 664 370 754 884 667 082 677 224 2 763 560 20 


participants 

337 329 221 300 17 009 17 042 592 680 5 


Total 3 360 980 3 334 567 3 255 837 2 951 150 12 902 534 100 

Personnel 2 

Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

DE IT CA GB US 

Management 6.1 3 11 61 7 39 13 2 0 2 1 1 1 






Other staff 1 0 0 1 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 

Total 71.10 39 47 44 53 35 7 5 3 3 3 30 


Totals 





1 


2 


3 


4 


5 



6 


7 





Foray Dominique, Prof. (Chair) 

Huguenin Claire, Prof. 

Lomi Alessandro, Prof. 

Low Patrick, Prof. 

Maskus Keith E., Prof. 

McGrew Anthony, Prof. 

Odell John S., Prof. 

Steger Debra, Prof. 

Tietje Christian, Prof. 

Van Overwalle Geertrui, Prof. 






World Trade Organization, Genève, CH 

Department of Economics, University of Colorado, Boulder, US 

Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Strathclyde, GB 

School of International Relations, 

University of Southern California, US 

Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, CA 

Institut für Wirtschaftsrecht, Universität Halle Wittenberg, DE 

Centre for Intellectual Property Rights, Catholic University Leuven, BE 


phone: + 41 (0)31 308 23 51, fax: + 41 (0)31 305 29 71 



Mediality – 

Historical Perspectives 

NCCR Mediality 






Director 

Kiening Christian, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)44 634 25 53 

ckiening@access.uzh.ch 


Tröhler M. Prof. 

phone: +41 (0)44 634 35 22 

m.troehler@fiwi.uzh.ch 

Deputy Director (Coordination) 

Stercken Martina, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)44 634 51 16 

stercken@hist.uzh.ch 

Knowledge and 


Thier Andreas, Prof. 


Glauser Jürg, Prof. 


Naumann Barbara, Prof. 

Address 



Rämistr. 42 

8001 Zürich 

phone: + 41 (0)44 634 51 19 

sekretariat@mediality.ch 

Web Address 

www.mediality.ch 

Research 

Interference 

Mythological Interference 

H: Glauser J. 

Diagrammatic structures 

H: Lutz E. C. 

Plastic Writing 

H: Glaser E., Rübekeil L. 

Urban Sounds 

H: Roeck B. 

Display 

Medial Metonymies 

H: Kiening Ch. 

Texts, Images, 

and Propaganda 

H: Zey C. 

Mapping Territories 

H: Stercken M. 

Literary Effects of Presence 

H: Schneider S. 

Dynamics of 

Cinematic Display 

H: Schweinitz J., Tröhler M. 

Instrumentalization 

Monarchic Enthronement 

and Consecration 

H: Thier A. 

Media of Order 

H: Teuscher S. 

Peculiarities 

of Charter Language 

H: Glessgen M. 

Mediality of Stained Glass 

Ensembles 

H: Kurmann B. 

Transference 

Figurations 

of the Chosen Ones 

H: Naumann B. 

Rhetoric of Transference 

H: Müller Nielaba D. 

Charismatic Figures 

H: Wagner K., Gamper M. 

The Artistic Transplant 

H: Stoichita V. 

Narrations of the Foreign Holy 

H: Schnyder M. 

Reception of Arabic Music 

H: Hinrichsen H.-J. 

Common Field 

Assistant Professor 

Sandl M. 

Senior Researchers 

Beil U. J., Nievergelt A. 

Permanent Cooperations 

Mediated Origins 

H: Aris M-A. (Munich) 

Medialising death 

H: Stoellger Ph. (Rostock) 

Iconology of the Textile 

H: Weddigen T. 


Topics 


In its second phase the 

NCCR focuses on the historicity 

of media and mediality. 

It investigates forms 

of communication, transfer, 

and perception before the 

era of mass-media dominance 

and modern teleologically 

and technologically 

oriented media discourses, 

whose historical reach goes 

no further back than the introduction 

of film, radio, or 

television. The aim of the 

NCCR is a historical mediology 

which particularly 

examines change in communication 

practices, new 

dynamics in medial forms, 

and reflection on the conditions 

of communication. 

Special moments and constellations 

will be analysed, 

in which the medial can be 

grasped and described, as 

well as longer periods of 

change. 

The task of the historical 

mediology already in progress 

is to develop patterns 


Beil Ulrich J., PD 

Gamper Michael, Prof. 

Glaser Elvira, Prof. 

Glauser Jürg, Prof. 

Glessgen Martin-Dietrich, Prof. 

Hinrichsen Hans-Joachim, Prof. 

Kiening Christian, Prof. 

Kurmann-Schwarz Brigitte, Prof. 

Lutz Eckart Conrad, Prof. 

Müller-Nielaba Daniel, Prof. 

Naumann Barbara, Prof. 

Nievergelt Andreas, PD 

of description that allow 

us to understand how mediality 

has formed cultural 

meaning. The question is 

not so much what media 

are, but rather, what in 

which situations and processes 

works as a medium, 

and what are the specific 

conditions that make the 

medial possible. Emphasis 

is put therefore not only on 

the images that media present 

of the world, but also 

on those images of the medial 

that shape our notions 

of what media are. The historicity 

and imagination of 

the medial, as well as the 

particular historical dynamics 

and logics of mediality 

will be brought to light. 

Organised into a general 

overall field (A.) and four 

issue-related fields (B. Interference, 

C. Ostentation, 

D. Instrumentalisation and 

E. Transference), texts, images, 

maps, sculptures, architecture, 

textiles, sounds 

and films will serve to develop 

different but related 

perspectives on medial peculiarities 

of the premodern 

period. The period between 

the 12th and the 15th centuries 

forms the focus of research 

in the second phase 

of the NCCR as it did in 

the first. At the same time, 

however, the borders of European-Christian 

cultural 

traditions will be brought 

into focus, perspectives on 

the early modern period will 

be opened, and selected 

aspects of modernity will 

provide a basis to observe 

those phases of modernity 

in which in literature, art, 

and science media discourses 

begin to take shape 

- discourses which in turn 

formed the idea of a premodern 

mediality. Participating 

fields of the NCCR 

are: German Literature and 

Linguistics, History, History 

of Art, Film Studies, 

Musicology, Scandinavian 

Studies, Romance Literature 

and Linguistics, and 

Law. 

Deutsches Seminar, Universität Zürich 

Deutsches Seminar, Universität Hannover 



Romanisches Seminar, Universität Zürich 

Musikwissenschaftliches Institut, Universität Zürich 


Kunsthistorisches Seminar, Universität Zürich 

Departement für Germanistik, Université de Fribourg 






• Art History and Music, University 

of Birmingham, School of 

Languages, Cultures, GB 

• Biblioteca Mario Gromo, Museo del 

Cinema di Torino, IT 

• Capaciteitsgroep Duitse en 

Scandinavische talen en culturen, 

Universiteit van Amsterdam, NL 

• Centre André Chastel, Corpus 

Vitrearum France, FR 

• Cinémathèque Luxembourg, 

Filmarchiv, LU 

• College of Humanities, Arts 

and Social Sciences, History 

Department, US 

• Comparative Literature 

Department,Yale University, 

New Haven, US 

• CRH – GAHOM, Ecole des hautes 

études en sciences sociales EHESS, 

Paris, FR 

• Department of Art and Architecture, 


• Department of English, 

Syddansk Universitet, Odense, NO 

• Department of Language and 

Culture, Linköping University, SE 



• Department of Germanic Studies, 

New York University, US 

• Department of History, University 

of South Carolina, US 

• Department of Media, 


• Department of Technology 

and Society Studies, 

University of Maastricht, NL 

• Deutsches Historisches Institut, 

Paris, FR 

• Deutsches Seminar, Leibniz 

Universität Hannover, DE 

• Deutsches Seminar I, Albert- 

Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i.Br, DE 

• Dept. of Art and Architecture, 


• Department of Film History and Aesthetics, 



University of California, Berkeley, US 

• Department of Germanic Studies, 


• Department of History, 

Cornell University, US 

• Department of Literature, History 

of Ideas, and Religion, 

University of Gothenburg, SE 

• Dipartimento delle Arti Visive, 

Università di Bologna, IT 

• Dipartimento di letterature 

moderne e scienze dei linguaggi, 

Universität Siena, IT 

• Dipartimento di Storia delle Arti, 

della Musica e dello Spettacolo, 

Università degli studi di Milano, IT 

• Ecole des Hautes Etudes 

en Sciences Sociales, Paris, FR 

• Emmy-Noether-Research 

Group “History of Listening”, 

Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 

Berlin, DE 

• English Department,Vanderbilt 

University, Nashville, Tennessee, US 

• Equipe d’accueil de Linguistique 

et Lexicographie Latine et 

Romane, Université de Paris, FR 

• EYE Nederlands Filmmuseum, 

Filmarchiv, NL 

• Fachbereich Geschichte und 

Soziologie, Universität Konstanz, DE 

• Fach Germanistik, 

Universität Duisburg-Essen, DE 

• Fakultät für Sprach- und 

Literaturwissenschaften, Griechische 

und lateinische Philologie, 


• Filmmuseum Wien, Filmarchiv, AT 

• Forschungszentrum für 

mittelalterliche Glasmalerei, 

Corpus Vitrearum Deutschland, DE 

• Friedrich-Alexander-Universität 

Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE 


• Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, 


• German Department, 


• German Medieval and Linguistic 

Studies, University of Oxford, GB 

• German Medieval Studies, 


• Germanistik-Literaturwissenschaft, 

Bereich Filmstudien, Universität 

Duisburg-Essen, DE 

• Germanistik, Universität 

Saarbrücken, DE 

• Germanistisches Seminar, 

Universität Salzburg, DE 

• Geschichte und Ästhetik der 

Medien, Friedrich-Schiller- 

Universität Jena, DE 

• Griechische und lateinische 

Philologie, LMU München, DE 

• Historisches Institut, 


• Historisches Seminar, 

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität 

München, DE 


Universität Essen/Duisburg, DE 


Universität Freiburg, DE 




Universität Münster, DE 


Universität Strasbourg, FR 

• History Department, Barnard 

College, Columbia University, 

New York, US 

• Institut de Recherche en Cinéma 

et Audiovisuel (IRCAV), Université 

Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III), FR 

• Institut des sciences humaines et 

sociales, Institut de recherche et 

d’histoire des textes (CNRS), 

Paris, FR 

• Institut für Allgemeine 

und Vergleichende 

Literaturwissenschaft, Goethe- 

Universität Frankfurt/Main, DE 

• Institut für die Theater-, Film- und 

Fernsehwissenschaft, Johann 

Wolfgang Goethe Universität, DE 

• Institut für Englische Philologie, 

Historische Sprachwissenschaft 

und Mittelalterliche Literatur, 


• Institut de Linguistique Française, 

Université de Strasbourg, FR 

• Institut für europäische und vergleichende 

Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, 


• Institut für Germanistik 

und Vergleichende 

Literaturwissenschaft, 

Universität Paderborn, DE 

• Institut für Germanistik, 

Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft, 

Universität Augsburg, DE 

• Institut für deutsche Literatur, 

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DE 

• Institut für deutsche Philologie, 

Julius-Maximilians-Universität 

Würzburg, DE 


Universität Hamburg, DE 




Vergleichende Literaturund 

Kulturwissenschaft, 

Universität Bonn, DE 

• Institut für Geschichte und ihre 

Didaktik, Universität Flensburg, DE 

• Institut für Klassische Altertumskunde, 

Mittel- und Neulateinische 

Philologie, Christian-Albrechts- 

Universität zu Kiel, DE 

• Institut für Linguistik / Romanistik, 


• Institut für Musikwissenschaft 

und Medienwissenschaft, 

HU Berlin, DE 

• Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte, 

Universität Münster, DE 

Mediality – 




The NCCR stimulates research 

on premodern medial 

phenomena. Its added 

value is to concentrate and 

amalgamate theories, approaches, 

and observations 

made in different scientific 

fields and create a new 

understanding of mediality 

before the period of mass 

media and media theories. 

Thus it has social relevance 

and can change traditional 

knowledge. 

Not media but mediality 

Unlike most contemporary 

media studies the NCCR 

does not focus on single 

media but on complex 

media situations. It asks 

the question of what can be 

Roeck Berndt, Prof. 

Rübekeil, Ludwig, Prof. 

Sandl Marcus, Prof. 

Schneider Sabine Prof. 

Schnyder Mireille, Prof. 

Schweinitz Jörg, Prof. 

Stercken Martina, Prof. 

Stoichita Viktor, Prof. 

Teuscher Simon, Prof. 

Tröhler Margrit, Prof. 

Thier Andreas, Prof. 

Wagner Karl, Prof. 

Weddigen Tristan, Prof. 

Zey Claudia, Prof. 

used as a medium, how in 

specific situations and constellations 

meaning can be 

generated, how the usage of 

mediality was institutionalized, 

and in which ways it 

has been reflected by contemporaries. 

Theories and models of 

mediality 

Bringing together researchers 

from different fields 

and scientific traditions the 

NCCR studies historical 

theories and models of mediality 

plumbing antique, 

medieval, and early modern 

reflection on language, 

texts, and images of different 

kind. It also examines 

the artefacts themselves 

and how they reveal knowledge 

of the ways and means 

of communication. 

Conditions of the possibilities 

of mediality 

Setting the focus on the 

analysis of historical issues 

of huge variety the NCCR’s 

single projects considerate 

the basic conditions that 

enable communication. 

Looking into premodern 

forms of mediality, they 

widen the modern discussion 

on media bringing in 

epistemological and ontological 

aspects. 


www.mediality.ch 

Historisches Seminar, Universität Zürich 





Seminar für Filmwissenschaften, Universität Zürich 


Département d’Histoire de l’Art et Musicologie, 

Université de Fribourg 


Seminar für Filmwissenschaften, Universität Zürich 

Rechtswissenschaftliches Institut, Universität Zürich 


Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Zürich 





SNSF funding 1 500 000 1 500 000 1 500 000 1 500 000 6 000 000 50 


institution 1 447 936 869 479 897 046 445 875 2 660 336 22 


participants 

1 167 512 1 122 503 1 042 503 63 400 3 395 918 28 

Third-party funding 0 0 0 0 0 0 

Total 3 115 448 3 491 982 3 439 549 2 009 275 12 056 254 100 

Personnel 2 

Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

DE IT AT ES FR 

Management 3.1 3 6 67 3 33 4 5 1 0 0 0 0 






Other staff 5 2 40 3 60 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 

Total 62.10 32 47 36 53 35 29 2 1 1 1 5 


Totals 





1 


2 


3 


4 


5 



6 


7 





Burghartz Susanna, Prof. (Chair) 

Coleman Janet, Prof. 

Geary Patrick J., Prof. 

Grob Alexander, Prof. 

Kaes Anton, Prof. 

Kasten Ingrid, Prof. 

Krüger Klaus, Prof. 

Ruhe Doris, Prof. em. 

Vosskamp Wilhelm, Prof. 




Department of Government, London School of Economics, GB 

Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, 

Princeton, US 


Department of Film & Media, University of California, US 

Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie, 


Kunsthistorisches Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, DE 

Würzburg (vormals Universität Greifswald), DE 

Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur, Universität Köln, DE 


phone: + 41 (0)31 308 23 49, fax: + 41 (0)31 305 29 71, 

sbachmann@snf. 

• Institute of Media and 

Representation, Faculty of Arts, 

Utrecht University, NL 

• Institutet för språk och folkminnen, 

Nationalmuseum Kopenhagen, DK 

• Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske 

studier, Universität Oslo, NO 

• Kunsthistorisches Institut, Freie 


• Laboratoire de Français Ancien, 

Université d’Ottawa, CA 

• Lehrstuhl für Geschichte und 

Ästhetik der Medien, Friedrich- 

Schiller-Universität Jena, DE 

• Linguistik, Universität Bonn, DE 

• Linguistics and Film at Queen Mary 

College, University of London, GB 

• Maison Méditerranéenne 

des Sciences de l’Homme, 

Aix-en-Provence, FR 


Wissenschaftsgeschichte, DE 

• Mediävistisches Institut, 


• Medienwissenschaft, 

Universität Trier, DE 

• Migros Kulturprozent, 

L’arc – Littérature et atelier de 

réflexion contemporaine, CH 

• Monumenta Germaniae Historica, 

Munich, DE 

• Museo del Cinema di Torino, 

Università degli Studi di Torino, IT 

• Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar, 


• Münster, Seminar für Lateinische 

Philologie des Mittelalters und der 

Neuzeit, Westfälische Wilhelms- 

Universität, DE 

• National Fairground Archive, 


• Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft, 

Goethe-Universität 

Frankfurt a. M., DE 

• Nordeuropa-Institut, Humboldt- 

Universität zu Berlin, DE 

• Nordisches Institut, Christian- 

Albrechts-Universität Kiel, DE 

• Nordisk Institut, 

Aarhus Universitet, DK 

• Thomas-Institut, Universität Köln, DE 

• Nordistik Forschungsinstitut, 

Københavns Universitet, DK 

• Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, FR 

• Pius-Stiftung für Papsturkundenforschung, 

Akademie der 

Wissenschaft zu Göttingen, DE 

• Professur für Musikwissenschaft, 

Musikhochschule Lübeck, DE 

• Romanisches Seminar Heidelberg, 

Heidelberger Akademie der 

Wissenschaften, DE 

• Romanische Philologie, 

Freie Universität Bozen, IT 

• Sammlung Malerei bis 1800 

und Glasmalerei, Germanisches 

Nationalmuseum, DE 

• Scandinavian and Folklore, Har-vard 

University, Cambridge, MA, US 

• School of Geography, Queen’s 

University Belfast, IE 

• Seminar für Kunstgeschichte, 

Heinrich Heine Universität 


• Seminar für Lateinische Philologie 

des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit, 

Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität 

Münster, DE 

• Seminar für Neuere Geschichte, 

Universität Tübingen, DE 

• Skaldic Poetry of the 

Scandinavian Middle Ages Project, 

University of Sydney, US 

• Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, 

Universität Augsburg, DE 

• Stofnun Árna Magnússonar 

í íslenskum fræum, 

Háskóli Íslands, Rekyjavik, IS 

• Technology, Innovation and 

Society, Eindhoven University 

of Technology, NL 

• Universität Konstanz, DE 

• University of California at Berkeley, 

Berkeley, US 


Challenges to Democracy 

in the 21 st Century 

NCCR Democracy 






Director 

Kübler Daniel, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)44 634 38 86 

daniel.kuebler@ipz.uzh.ch 


Esser Frank, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)44 635 20 44 

f.esser@ipmz.uzh.ch 

Administrative Director 

Rosteck Yvonne, Mrs. 

phone: + 41 (0)44 634 52 02 

rosteck@nccr-democracy.uzh.ch 

Administration 

Cavegn Barbara, Mrs. 

Communication 

Rosteck Yvonne, Mrs. 

Knowledge and 




Papadopoulos Ioannis, Prof. 


Gilardi Fabrizio, Prof. 


Address 



Affolternstrasse 56 

8050 Zürich 

phone: + 41 (0)44 634 52 01 

fax: + 41 (0)44 634 52 00 

infodesk@nccr-democracy.uzh.ch 

Web Address 

www.nccr-democracy.uzh.ch 


• Newsletter (print) 

• Public events 

• Website 


• E-Newsletter 

Research 

Module “Constituting democracy 

in multinational polities” 

Leader: Lavenex S. 

Conceptions of Europe – 

alternative demos conceptions 

in the EU 

Head: Caramani D., Imhof K. 

Designing “demoicracy” 

in Europe 

H: Cheneval F., Lavenex S., 

Schimmelfennig F. 

Institutional strategies for 

post-conflict democratization 

H: Cederman L.-E., Hug S. 

Module “Elected and nonelected 

political actors in denationalized 

policy-making” 

Leader: Kübler D. 

Civil society – 

government interactions 

in global governance 

H: Koubi V., Bernauer T. 

Internationalization, 

mediatization, and the 

accountability of regulatory 

agencies 

H: Papadopoulos I., Gilardi F. 

Cleavages, governance 

and the media in European 

metropolitan areas 

H: Kübler D., Marcinkowski F. 


Bächtiger André, Dr. 

Bernauer Thomas, Prof. 

Bonfadelli Heinz, Prof. 

Bochsler, Daniel, Prof. 

Caramani Daniele, Prof. 

Cederman Lars-Erik, Prof. 

Cheneval Francis Prof. 

Donges Patrick, Prof. 


Gautschi Thomas, Dr. 

92 | Guide 2013 

Module “Mediatization – 

Implications for politics, 

news media and the public” 

Leader: Bonfadelli H. 

Mediatization of political 

reality: Implications of 

media-centered reporting 

styles for democracy 

H: Esser F. 


interest groups: Changes of 

organizational structure and 

communication repertoire 

H: Donges P., Jarren O. 

The mediatization of political 

decision-making 

H: Sciarini P., Tresch A. 


attitudes: Becoming 

a democratic citizen in a 

multi-media environment 

H: Bonfadelli H., 

Esser F., de Vreese C. 

Module “Changing processes 

and strategies of political participation 

and representation: 

comparing public debates” 

Leader: Wirth W. 

Strategies of political actors 

H: Kriesi H. 

Strategies and processes 

of issue selection and 

construction: comparing 

public debates 

H: Siegert G. 

The strategies and processes 

of attitude formation and 

public participation in 

comparative perspective 

H: Wirth W. 

The antecedents of public 

opinion expression – 

a cross-national study of 

debate participation 

H: Matthes J. 

Module 

“The quality of democracy” 

H: Ladner A. 

Democracy barometer 

H: Merkel W., Bochsler, D. 

E-voting: Smart-voting 2.0 

H: Ladner A. 

Deliberative experiments 

and direct democratic voting 

H: Bächtiger A., 

Steenbergen M., Gautschi T. 

Knowledge Transfer 

Projects 

Democracy under the 

influence of globalisation 

and mediatisation – 

A series of teaching units 

for level secondary I 

H: Ziegler B. 

Narrative space 

H: Wyss V. 

Transfer projects (strong 


Visual Reader “The challenge 

of democracy” 

H: Kriesi H. 

Seminar für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Luzern 

Center for Comparative and International Studies 

(CIS), ETH Zürich 

Institut für Publizistikwissenschaft und Medienforschung, 

Universität Zürich 

Zentrum für Demokratie Aarau (ZDA), Universität Zürich 

Institute of Political Science, University of St. Gallen 



Philosophisches Seminar, Universität Zürich 

Institut für Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, 

Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald 



Lehrstuhl für Methoden der Empirischen Sozialforschung, 

Universität Mannheim

Topics 

Well-functioning democratic 

processes and institutions 

constitute the backbone 

of political legitimacy, 

social stability, economic 

growth and prosperity. 

However, these days democracy 

is faced with serious 

challenges: 

First, the process of globalization 

has undermined 

the problem-solving capacities 

of established democracies. 

Governments 

no longer have the degree 

of control that they once 

had, and their decisions are 

increasingly affected by decisions 

taken elsewhere. At 

the same time, international 

institutions to which political 

authority is increasingly 

transferred lack democratic 

legitimacy. Furthermore, 

Gilardi Fabrizio, Prof. 

Hug Simon, Prof. 

Imhof Kurt, Prof. 

Jarren Otfried, Prof. 

Koubi Vally, Prof. 

Kriesi Hanspeter, Prof. 

Kübler Daniel, Prof. 

Ladner Andreas, Prof. 


Marcinkowski Frank, Prof. 

Matthes Jörg, Prof. 

Merkel Wolfgang, Prof. 

Papadopoulos Ioannis, Prof. 

Sciarini Pascal, Prof. 

Schimmelfennig Frank, Prof. 

Siegert Gabriele, Prof. 

Steenbergen Marco, Prof. 

Tresch Anke, Dr. 

de Vreese Claes, Prof. 

Wirth Werner, Prof. 

Wyss Vinzenz, Prof. 

Ziegler Béatrice, Prof. 

the process of extending 

democracy into unstable 

countries and regions has 

proven to be more difficult 

than expected. 

Second, democratic systems 

are confronting the 

increasingly powerful role 

of the media in politics. In 

this mediatization process 

over recent decades, 

the mass media have been 

moving from being merely 

a channel of communication 

to being a major actor 

in the political arena. This 

can be problematic as the 

media are able to influence 

the entire decision-making 

process and they can assign 

political relevance and importance 

to societal problems 

according to their own 

logic. 

Since 2005, social scientists 

have been working together 

for the NCCR Democracy in 

order to better understand 

how democracy is developing 

under these two conditions. 

While globalization 

and mediatization pose 

significant challenges to 

democracy, they also provide 

new opportunities for 

both new and established 

democracies to adapt to 

changing conditions and 

can contribute to a reinforcement 

of democracy. 

The researchers’ common 

goal is to give explanations 

for the current changes and 

to propose new solutions 

and therefore improve the 

quality of democracy. 

Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Zürich 

Département de science politique, Université de Genève 

Institut für Publizistikwissenschaft und Medienforschung und 

Soziologisches Institut der Universität Zürich 



Volkswirtschaftliches Institut, Universität Bern 

European University Institute (EUI), Florence 

Zentrum für Demokratie Aarau ZDA, Universität Zürich 

IDHEAP, Universität Lausanne 

Seminar für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Luzern 

Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft, Universität Münster 

Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaften, 

Universität Wien 

Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung 

Institut d’Etudes Politiques et Internationales, 







Institut für Politikwissenschaft (IPZ), Universität Zürich 


The Amsterdam School of Communtications Research, 

University of Amsterdam 

Institut für Publizistikwissenschaft und Medienforschung (IPMZ), 


Institut für Angewandte Medienwissenschaft, 

Zürcher Hochschule Winterthur ZHW 

Zentrum für Demokratie Aarau ZDA, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz 


Programmes 

• ASCN 

• CAP 

• CLIMPOL 

• Demanc 

• IMO 

• NEWGOV 

• RECON 

• RRPP 

• SFB 597 


• Amsterdam Institute for 

Advanced Labour, 

University of Amsterdam, NL 

• Centre de Théorie Politique, 

Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE 

• Centre for Deliberative Democracy, 

Australian National University, 

Canberra, AU 

• Centrum voor Mediacultuur en 

Communicatietechnologie (OE), 

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE 

• Departamento Ciências da 

Communicação, Universidade 

do Minho, Braga, PT 

• Department of Communication, 

University of California, 

San Diego, US 

• Department of Communication, 

University of Missouri, 

Columbia, US 

• Department of Political and 

Social Sciences, European 

University Institute, Florence, IT 

• Department of Political 

Communication, 

University of Krems, AT 

• Department of Political Science, 

University of Exeter, GB 

• Department of Political Science, 

University of Koblenz Landau, DE 

• Department of Public 

Communication, Vytautas 

Magnus University, Kaunas, LT 

• Department of Social Cultural 

Studies, Free University 

of Amsterdam, NL 


University of California, 


• Faculty of the Social Sciences, 

Goethe University, Frankfurt / 

Main, DE 

• Georgian Opinion Research 

Business International, Tbilisi, GE 

• Graduate School, Chinese Academy 

of Social Sciences, Beijing, CN 

• Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft, 

Westfälische 

Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE 

• Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, 


• Institute for European Integration 

Research, Austrian Academy 

of Science, Vienna, AT 


Challenges to Democracy 

in the 21 st Century 


• Institute of Communication 

Studies, Leeds University, GB 

• Institute of Mass Communication 

and Media Research, 

Free University Berlin, DE 

• Institute of Political Science, 


• Laboratoire Communication et 

politique, Centre National de la 

Recherche Scientifique, Paris, FR 

• Political Science Department, 

University of Mannheim, DE 

• Political Science Department, 

University of Oslo, NO 

• Politics and International Studies, 

Open University, Milton Keynes, GB 

• Professorship Theory and History 

of Democracy, Social Science 

Research Center Berlin, DE 

• School of Politics and 

International Relations, 

University College Dublin, IE 

• Social Science Research Institute, 

Abo Akademi, Turku, FI 

• Vakgroep Politieke 

Wetenschappen, Vrije Universiteit 

Brussels, BE 

• Zentrum für Sozialpolitik, 

Universität Bremen, DE 


• Bertelsmann Transformation 

Index, Bertelsmann Stiftung, 

Gütersloh, DE 

• Politools, Bern, CH 

Others 

• Schweizer Jugend forscht, 

Bern, CH 

• Tripartite Agglomerationskonferenz 

/ Konferenz der Kantonsregierungen, 

Berne, CH 


Multi-disciplinary research 

The 24 research projects 

completed in Phase I show 

how the two challenges of 

globalization and mediatization 

jeopardize or reinforce 

democracy: While 

globalization poses new 

threats to democracy at 

the national level, it also 

allows for the democratization 

of supranational 

organizations and of nondemocratic 

countries. 

However, the projects also 

indicate the unfavourable 

consequences of democratization. 

While mediatization 

leads to a commercialization 

of news and extends 

the techniques of manipulating 

public opinion, it 

also diversifies the sources 

of news reporting, opens 

politics to the scrutiny of 

an ever more sophisticated 

public, and increases the 

focus on dialogue. The research 

results have been 

or are in the process of 

being published with leading 

publishers and in major 

journals in the fields. Furthermore, 

the NCCR has 

launched a refereed e- 

journal Living Reviews on 

Democracy, providing upto-date 

reviews of the state 

of research in all fields of 

democracy studies. 


The projects in the Module 

“The quality of democracy” 

and the Knowledge Transfer 

Projects have provided 

tools either for democracy 

research or for the transfer 

of research results to 

the public: The Democracy 

Barometer has completed 

data collection for 

75 democracies; the publicly 

accessible website 

www.democracybarometer.org 

presents country rankings 

and diagrams allowing for 

an assessment of the quality 

of democracy in established 

democracies. Two projects 

have produced e-learning 

tools in order to support 

courses in Swiss secondary 

schools or at Swiss universities. 

One project developed 

an instrument to monitor 

mass media performance 

in modern democracies. 

Another project developed 

decision-aids for voters in 

the domain of e-democracy 

and identified the risks and 

potentials of such tools 

from a legal perspective. 

Finally, one project promoted 

knowledge transfer 

of NCCR research into 

society by mediating joint 

meetings with researchers 

and journalists. 

Education and training 

The NCCR Democracy 

provides an interdisciplinary 

doctoral program in 

order to enable its participants 

to obtain Ph.D. degrees 

of such a quality that 

they can place themselves 

at the forefront of their 

discipline(s) in Switzerland 

or abroad. The NCCR 

supports the training of 26 

Ph.D. students in each research 

phase. The completion 

rate and professional 

perspectives of the students 

are very positive: Most of 

them completed their Ph.D. 

in time and continued their 

academic career. In Phase 

II, another focus is on promoting 

postdoctoral researchers. 

Furthermore, 

an NCCR assistant professorship 

in democratization 

was created in 2010 at the 

University of Zurich. 

The core of our efforts 

to promote female researchers 

is the peer mentoring 

program. Two peer 

groups have been established 

in order to advance 

the careers of their members 

in academia and beyond. 

The groups organize 

a variety of successful 

activities designed to develop 

skills vital to building 

up successful careers and 

to create networks. Most 

female doctoral students 

plan to stay in academia 

after finishing their dissertation. 

The program has 

been a very positive experience 

for all of its members, 

and they consider it 

one of the most effective 

forms of supporting the 

advancement of women 

in academia. 

Structural effects 

The NCCR Democracy 

initiated the Zentrum für 

Demokratie Aarau (ZDA). 

The ZDA is the first democracy 

research center in 

Switzerland and a unique 

model for a partnership between 

a municipality (City 

of Aarau), a canton (Argovia), 

a university of applied 

sciences (FHNW) and a university 

(University of Zurich). 

The establishment of 

the center has also led to the 

creation of a new professorship 

in Democracy Studies 

at the University of Zurich. 

The founding of ZDA is an 

important measure for institutionalizing 

the NCCR 

Democracy and for securing 

and extending its 

research and educational 

efforts in the long run. 


www.nccr-democracy.uzh.ch 

Partner Institutions 

European University Institute (EUI), Florence 

FORS, Université de Lausanne 

Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Berlin 

Zentrum für Demokratie (ZDA), Aarau 




SNSF funding 1 1 875 000 1 875 000 1 875 000 2 172 000 7 797 000 46 


institution2 835 357 1 288 878 706 767 845 610 3 676 612 22 


participants 

1 457 081 1 555 283 1 410 993 735 982 5 159 339 31 


Total 4 172 158 4 733 489 4 074 563 3 901 905 16 882 115 100 

Personnel 3 

Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

DE FR GR NL CA 

Management 4.3 4 8 50 8 50 9 7 0 1 0 0 0 






Other staff 9 3 33 6 67 4 4 0 0 1 0 1 

Total 89.30 37 37 64 63 57 38 2 3 2 1 8 


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Varone Frédéric, Prof. (Chair) Swiss National Science Foundation, Berne, CH 

Benz Arthur, Prof. 

Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Technische Universität Darmstadt, DE 

Braun Dietmar, Prof. 


Butera Fabrizio, Prof. 


Entman Robert, Prof. 

School of Media and Public Affairs, 

The George Washington University, Washington, US 

Mazzoleni Gianpietro, Prof. Department of Social and Political Studies, University of Milan, IT 

Stefaan Walgrave, Prof. 

Department of Political Science, University Antwerpen, BE 




phone: + 41 (0)31 308 23 51, fax: + 41 (0)31 305 29 71, 






September 1, 2005 


Director (until August 2013) 

Scherer Klaus R., Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)22 379 92 11 

Klaus.Scherer@unige.ch 

Director (from September 2013) 

Sander David, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)22 379 92 12 

David.Sander@unige.ch 


N.N. 


Sauge Daniela, Mrs. 

phone: + 41 (0)22 379 98 04 

Daniela.Sauge@unige.ch 


Soriano Cristina, Dr. 

phone: +41 (0)22 379 98 53 

cristine.soriano@unige.ch 


Kaiser Susanne, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)22 379 92 16 

Susanne.Kaiser@unige.ch 

Schmid Mast Marianne, Prof. 

phone: + 41 (0)32 718 13 94 

marianne.schmid@unine.ch 

Sauge Daniela, Mrs. 

Computer and Internet 

Resources / Methods 

Grandjean Didier, Prof. 

phone: +41 (0) 22 379 92 13 

Didier.Grandjean@unige.ch 

Kapusova Dajana, Mrs. 

Dajana.Kapusova@unige.ch 

Savary Julien 

Julien.Savary@unige.ch 

Communication Officer 

Varone Carole, Mrs. 

phone: +41 (0)22 379 98 05 

Carole.Varone@unige.ch 

Knowledge and Technology Transfer 

Varone Carole, Mrs. 

Interdisciplinarity 

Deonna Julien, Prof. 

phone: +41 (0) 22 379 98 68 

Julien.Deonna@unige.ch 

Address 

NCCR Affective Sciences 

CISA Centre Interfacultaire en 

Sciences Affectives 


7, rue des Battoirs, 1205 Genève 

phone: + 41 (0)22 379 98 00 

fax: + 41 (0)22 379 98 44 

Web Address 

www.affective-sciences.org 

Affective Sciences: 

Emotion in Individual Behaviour 

and Social Processes 


Research 

Work Package 

Appraisal / Values / Norms 

H: Sander D. 

Affective relevance: nature, 

determinants and effects 

H: Sander D. 

The impact of emotional 

cues on prosocial behavior 

and norm compliance 

H: Fehr E. 

Emotion, feeling & value 

H: Deonna J., Teroni F. 

Myths & rites as cultural 

expression of emotion 

H: Borgeaud P. 

The translation of 

the emotions: 

from Greece to Rome 

H: Nelis D. 

Work Package 

Individual differences / 

Dispositions 

H: Schmid Mast M. 

Experiencing and 

regulating emotions, issues 

of self-involvement, and 

relationships to well-being 

and performance 

H: Semmer N., Tschan F. 

The cognitive-affective 

interplay of self regulation 

H:Van der Linden M. 

Emotion and gender under 

a power perspective 

H: Schmid Mast M., Kaiser S. 

How the brain changes its 

mind: Roles of emotional 

relevance and sleep in learning 

and decision making 

H: Schwartz S. 

When social appraisal meets 

social referencing. A developmental 

prespective on interest 

H: Clement F. 

Work Package 

Systems / Dynamics 

H: Vuilleumier P. 

Appraisal-driven patterning 

of emotional expression and 

experience 

H: Scherer K.R. 

Neural mechanisms of emotional 

response patterning 

and systems synchronisation 

H: Grandjean D. 

Cerebral bases of 

individual differences in affect 

perception and regulation 

H:Vuilleumier P., Landis T. 

Affective dynamics 

and aesthetic emotions 

H: Lombardo P., Griener P. 

Affective computing and emotion 

awareness in computermediated 

interaction 

H: Betrancourt M., Pun T. 

Research Foci 

H: Steering Board 

Applied affective sciences 

Affective computing 

Emotional basis of 

other-regarding behaviour: 

Empathy and fairness 

The nature and consequences 

of gender differences 

Emotion in language 

and culture 

Moral emotions 

Music & emotions 

Development of methods 




Emotions - An interactive exhibition 


Measuring emotional intelligence 

in the workplace: Development 

of a new test 

H: Mortillaro M. 

Combining brain stimulation 

with fMRI: Developing a 

standard setup for studying 

and modifying affective networks 

in the human brain 

H: Ruff Chr., Fehr E. 

Applying affective sciences 

to virtual reality: The study 

of how scents can enhance 

emotional experiences in immersive 

virtual worlds 

H: Sander D. 

Programmes 

Graduate School 

Post-Doc Program 

Summer School 

Female Careers: Special 

Stipends and Mentoring 

Lab Rotation 

Invited Professorships 


Topics 

This interdisciplinary NCCR 

investigates a phenomenon 

playing a central role in 

human behaviour and social 

interaction, emotion, 

on several levels of analysis 

from the perspectives of 

many different disciplines: 

psychology, neuroscience, 

economics, philosophy, law, 

comparative anthropology, 

as well as the humanities 

and the social sciences. 

The following research 

questions illustrate some of 

the central topics currently 

addressed by the NCCR 


- How are emotions elicited 

and differentiated into different 

response patterns? 

Topics: the role of brain 

structures, individual predispositions, 

cognitive appraisals, 

and situational 

Heads of Individual Research Projects and Associates 

Betrancourt Mireille, Prof. 

Borgeaud Philippe, Prof. 

Clement Fabrice, Prof. 

Deonna Julien, Prof. 

Fehr Ernst, Prof. 

Grandjean Didier, Prof. 

Griener Pascal, Prof. 

Kaiser Susanne, Prof. 

Lombardo Patrizia, Prof. 

Nelis Damien, Prof. 

Pun Thierry, Prof. 

Sander David, Prof. 

Schwartz Sophie, Dr. 

Scherer Klaus, Prof. 

Schmid Mast Marianne, Prof. 

Semmer Norbert, Prof. 

Teroni Fabrice, Dr. 

Tschan Franziska, Prof. 

van der Linden Martial, Prof. 

Vuilleumier Patrik, Prof. 

Members of the International Scientific Council 

Manstead Tony, Prof. 

Niedenthal Paula, Prof. 

Robinson Jenefer, Prof. 

Stemmler Gerhard, Prof. 

factors; the patterning and 

synchronisation of emotional 

responses and action 

tendencies; the expression 

and communication of emotion; 

- How are emotions regulated? 

Topics: the control of 

bodily reactions and feelings 

by social norms and interpersonal 

expectations; the 

ability to cope with emotions 

to avoid stress and burnout; 

the loss of control as a risk 

factor for affective disorders 

such as pathological anxiety 

and depression; the role of 

individual personality traits 

such as impulsivity; 

- What role does emotion 

play in social relations and 

interactions? Topics: the 

central role of empathy, 

affective processes in the 

family, the workplace, and 

society as a whole; the role 

of social norms and values, 

such as justice, in shaping 

the nature of the emotional 

response; the role of 

religion, myths but also fiction; 

the socializing function 

of moral emotions such as 

shame; effects of economic 

and socio-political changes 

on affective experiences 

and well-being. 

Special emphasis is being 

placed on the application 

of research findings as well 

as joint research activities 

with transfer partners in 

order to deal with social issues 

in the areas of health, 

work and organizations, the 

family, law, the problem of 

violence, economics, and 

the arts. The NCCR is also 

committed to training the 

first generation of “affective 

scientists”. 

TECFA-FPSE, Université de Genève 

Faculté des Lettres, Université de Genève 

Cognitive Science Center, Université de Neuchâtel 

Faculté des Lettres/Département de Philosophie, 


Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Universität Zürich 

CISA et Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l‘ Education, 


Institut d‘histoire de l‘art & de muséologie, Université de Neuchâtel 

Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l‘Education, 




Faculté des Sciences, Université de Genève 

CISA et Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l‘Education, 


Faculté de Médecine, Centre Médical Universitaire, Genève 

CISA et Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l‘Education, 


Institut de Psychologie du Travail et des Organisations, 


Institut für Psychologie, Universität Bern 

Institut für Philosophie, Universität Bern 

Institut de Psychologie du Travail et des Organisations, 


Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l‘Education, 


Faculté de Médecine, Centre Médical Universitaire, Genève 

School of Psychology,Cardiff University, GB 

Departement of Psychology, Université de Clermont-Ferrand, FR 

Departement of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, US 

Departement of Psychology, University of Marburg, DE 


• Newsletter 

• Website 

• Participation in radio 

and TV programs 

• Newspaper, magazine 

interviews and articles 

• Nuit de la Science 

• Cité des Métiers 

• Semaine du Cerveau 

• Salon de l’étudiant 

• Le temps d’une découverte, 


• Journée des filles 

• Journée des Collégiens 

• Museum exhibitions 

and workshops 

• Montreux Festival Jazz 


Programmes 

• BridGE 

• ENABLE 

• FIGVRA 

• ICCRA 

• IFAPO/ UMR 7571 PROTASI 

• IFAO/UMR 5140 (Ermant) 

• INTACT 

• Properemo 

• SSPNet 


• Abteilung Arbeits- und 

Organisationspsychologie, 


• Adaptive Systems Research Group, 

University of 

Hertfordshire, Hatfield, GB 

• Affective Neuroscience Lab, 

University of Wisconsin, 

Madison, US 

• Behavioural and Clinical 

Neuroscience Institute, Cambridge 

University, GB 

• Brain Research Unit, Low 

Temperature Laboratory, Aalto 

University, FI 

• Brain and Creativity Institute, 

University of Southern California, 


• Center for Neuropolicy, 

Emory University, Atlanta, US 

• Centre for the Study of Emotion at 

the University of Portsmouth, GB 

• Cognitive psychopathology Unit, 

University of Liège, BE 

• Computation and Neural 

Systems, California Institute 

of Technology, Pasadena CA, US 

• Computational Neuroscience 

Group, Kings College of 

London, GB 

• Department of Classics, 


• Dept. Of Classics, University of 

Edinburgh, GB 

• Department of Clinical Medicine - 

Center for Functionally Integrative 

Neuroscience, Aarhus University, DK 

• Department of Comparative 

Literature, University of Bergen, NO 

• Department of Economics. Ludwig- 

Maximilians-Universität, Munich, DE 



• Department of History and 

Archaeology, University of Crete, GR 

• Department of Medical Sociology, 

Heinrich Heine Universität 


• Depatment of Music, University of 

Jyväskylä, FI 

• Department of Philosophy, 

University of Adelaide, AU 


University of Lund, SE 


University of Montreal, CA 






University of Geneva, CH 



Blaise Pascal University, 



Ghent University, BE 


Harvard University, Boston, US 


National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health, Cincinnati, US 



Chicago, US 


Rutgers University, Brunswik, US 


Stanford University, Palo Alto, US 


University of Berkeley, US 




University of Gent, BE 


University of Graz, AT 




University of Pittsburgh, US 




University of Singapore, SG 

• Department of Psychology. 

Stockholm University, SE 


University of Paris 8, FR 


University of Tampere, FI 




Uppsala University, SE 


Johannes-Gutenberg-University 

Mainz, DE 


Work and Organisational 

Psychology, Konstanz, DE 


Yale University, New Haven, US 


University of Lausanne, CH 

• Dipartimento di Informatica 

Sistematica e Telematica: InfoMus 

Lab, University of Genoa, IT 

• Douglas Psychiatry Research 

Hospital, McGill University, 

Montreal, CA 

• Embodied Agents Research Group, 

German Research 

Centre for AI, Saarbrücken, DE 

• Environnements Virtuels pour 

l’Animation et la Synthèse 

d’Images d’Objets Naturels, 

Institut National de Recherche en 

Informatique et en Automatique 

Rhone-Alpes, Grenoble, FR 

• German Police University, 

Social, Work and Organisational 

Psychology, Münster, DE 

• Health Psychology Section, 


• HECV-Santé, 

• Institution National de la Santé 

et de la Recherche, 

Hôpital de la Salpétrière, Paris, FR 

• Institut Communication Parlée, 

Université de Grenoble, FR 

• Institut Dalcroze, Geneva, CH 

• Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, 

Universitat Pumpeu Fabra, 

Barcelona, ES 

• Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, 

Universität Innsbruck, AT 

• Institut National de la Santé 

et de la Recherche Médicale, 

Centre de Recherche Cerveau 

et Cognition, Toulouse, FR 


Emotion in Individual Behaviour 

and Social Processes 



Research 

During its first two phases, 

the NCCR Affective Sciences 

has demonstrated a 

high level of productivity, 

resulting in many publications 

in leading international 

journals and books. 

The concrete research 

achievements include: the 

experimental confirmation 

of cumulative-sequential 

processing of external stimuli; 

the creation of a reference 

corpus and data bank 

of emotional expressions; 

the experimental demonstration 

of the role of social 

context and personality on 

brain responses to other 

people‘s emotions; the pioneering 

ambulatory assessment 

of emotional reactions 

and regulation in real life 

settings (e.g., work place 

and family); the confirmation 

that social stressors at 

work have a powerful and 

measurable impact on emotions 

and, consequently, 

on health and well-being; 

the experimental confirmation 

that lack of perseverance 

and other impulsivity 

aspects are related 

to interference in working 

memory and response 

inhibition (with potential 

consequences for emotional 

stability); the demonstration 

that the intranasal administration 

of the neuropeptide 

Oxytocin, central in social 

approach behaviour in nonhuman 

mammals, causes a 

substantial increase in trust 

in humans; the conceptual 

analysis of shame and guilt, 

establishing a fundamental 

distinction between them; 

the analysis of the emotional 

issues related to individual 

attitudes towards organ donation; 

and a comparison 

of the emotional aspects of 

myths and rites in different 

ancient and classical cultures. 

The interdisciplinary Research 

Foci have been an 

outstanding success, in 

particular the foci on Music 

and Emotion and Language 

and Culture. In addition to a 

large number of workshops 

and symposia, mostly published 

as books or special 

journal issues, several major 

interdisciplinary research 

projects are currently being 

conducted. For example, a 

large intercultural project 

has established semantic 

profiles for emotion words 

in over 30 languages, which, 

in addition to producing 

valuable scientific insights, 

will allow more appropriate 

translations in cross-cultural 

research. The Transversal 

Module Methods has 

produced several important 

toolboxes to be shared 

within the NCCR and the 

scientific community at 

large. The NCCR is also a 

leading partner in the University 

of Geneva‘s Brain 

and Behavior Laboratory, 

which combines in a single 

facility top notch brain imaging, 

psychophysiological 

measurement, behavioural 

interaction and expression 

analysis with virtual reality 

tools used to elicit emotions. 

The NCCR also has a large 

number of associate members, 

academics and professionals 

from inside and 

outside Switzerland. The 

research expertise and past 

achievements of several of 

our scientists has been acknowledged 

by prizes and 

grants such as the Marcel 

Benoist prize (E. Fehr), the 

Théodore Ott prize (T. Landis), 

ERC Starting grants (G. 

Pourtois, T. Singer), and an 

ERC Advanced grant (K. R. 

Scherer). 

Education and training 

& Advancement of women 

The NCCR‘s doctoral program 

provides varied interdisciplinary 

training for 

the graduate students at 

the NCCR. Similarly, the 

postdoctoral program provides 

top-level seminars 

and a forum of exchange 

for the postdoctoral fellows. 

Regular thematic and 

methodological meetings 

are also organized with invited 

speakers from Switzerland 

and abroad. In 

2012, the NCCR celebrated 

the fourth International 

Summer School in Affective 

Sciences (ISSAS). In order 

to support women and young 

researchers with family 

responsibilities, the NCCR 

has also implemented stipends 

to help with day care 

costs and allow researchers 

to pursue their academic career. 


& Public information 

The NCCR is strongly committed 

to transferring scientific 

knowledge to society. 

Successful projects are 

being conducted in collaboration 

with (and with additional 

funding from) Firmenich, 

a world leader in 

fragrance research and production, 

the German technology 

institute Fraunhofer, 

and the foundation for marketing 

research Gesellschaft 

für Konsumforschung. 

During the past years, our 

researchers participated in 

several major events for the 

general public organized by 

the University of Geneva. The 

Center has also responded 

to numerous requests from 

the media, and has collaborated 

with local museums in 

several exhibitions. Its large 

website continues to draw an 

international audience. Both 

research results and knowledge 

transfer activities are 

featured prominently in the 

Center‘s newsletter. 


www.affective-sciences.org 




SNSF funding 1 2 500 000 2 500 000 2 500 000 3 613 000 11 113 000 32 


institution 2 666 454 1 066 702 1 647 276 1 568 305 4 948 737 14 


participants 

3 863 189 3 245 582 4 080 257 2 300 158 13 489 186 39 


Total 8 386 292 8 114 786 9 292 464 8 407 422 34 200 964 100 

Personnel 3 

Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

FR DE IT GB BE 

Management 4.8 4 7 64 4 36 4 2 2 0 1 0 3 






Other staff 26 12 46 14 54 16 5 2 0 0 0 3 

Total 162.80 90 53 79 47 65 29 23 13 7 5 33 


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Butera Fabrizio, Prof. (Chair) 

Burghartz Susanna, Prof. 

Clark Margaret, Prof. 

De Sousa Ronald B., Prof. (em.) 

Phelps Elizabeth A., Prof. 

Reusser Kurt, Prof. 

Ricci Bitti Pio Enrico, Prof. 

Thoits Peggy A., Prof. 




Swiss National Science, Foundation, Berne, CH 

Department of Psychology, Yale University, US 

Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, CA 

Department of Psychology, New York University, US 


Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Bologna, IT 

Department of Sociology, Indiana University, US 


phone: + 41 (0)31 308 23 51, fax: + 41 (0)31 305 29 71, 


• Laboratoire d’Informatique 

et Communication, 

Université de Paris, FR 

• Laboratoire d’Informatique 

pour la Mécanique et les Sciences 

de l’Ingénieur, Paris, FR 

• Language Technology Lab, DFKI 

GmbH, Saarbrücken, DE 

• Machine Learning, Technische 


• Maine Medical Center, Portland, US 

• Max Planck Institut Leipzig, DE 

• Memory Center, University 

Hospital Liège, BE 

• Memory Resources and Research 

Centre, University of Lille, FR 

• Neurological Reeducation Centre, 

Hospital Raymond Poincaré, 

Paris, FR 

• Nonconscious Information 

Processing Laboratory, 

University of Tulsa, US 

• Philosophy Department, 

University of Manchester, GB 

• Princeton Neuroscience Insitute, 


• Psychiatry III, 


• Psychology Department, 

Central Michigan University, 

Mount Pleasant, US 

• Psychology Department, University 

of California - Berkeley, US 

• Ikerbasque Research Center, 

Bilbao, ES 

• School of psychology, 

Cardiff University, GB 

• School of Psychology, 

Georgia Tech, Atlanta, US 


Normal University of Beijing, CN 


Queen’s University Belfast, IE 


University of Sussex, Brighton, GB 

• Section Sciences Religieuses, Ecole 

Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, FR 

• Service de Neurologie, 

Université de Rennes, FR 

• Social Cognition Lab, 

University of Aberdeen, GB 

• Social Psychology Department, 

Oxford University, GB 

• Textes, Littératures: 

Écritures et modèles, 

Université de Bordeaux, FR 

• The Computation Emotion 

Group, University of Southern 

California, US 

• Unité Fairburn (Anorexie 

boulimie), Clinique des Vallées, 

Ville-La-Grand, FR 

• Walton College, University 

of Arkansas, Fayettville, US 


• Domo Safety, EPF Lausanne, CH 

• Dynortis, Lucerne, CH 

• Fehr Advice, Zurich, CH 

• Firmenich SA, Genève, CH 

• GfK Nürnberg e.V., Nürnberg, DE 

Others 

• Alliance, Genève, CH 

• Foundation Montreux Jazz, CH 

• Innovations for poverty action, 

Busia, KE 

• Innovations for poverty action, 

New Haven, US 

• Lake Innovation Geneva Society 

(LGIS), Genève, CH 

• Musée d’Histoire des sciences, 

Geneva, CH 

• Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, 

Genève, CH 

• Service de la Formation Continue, 

Université de Genève, CH 

• Service Médico-Pédagogique, 

Genève, CH 

• Société Suisse pour la Science des 

Religions, Genève, CH 

• United Nations Children’s Fund, 

Zurich, CH 


Overcoming vulnerability: 

life course perspectives 

NCCR LIVES 







Director 

Spini Dario, Prof. 

Phone : +41 (0)21 692 38 44 

dario.spini@unil.ch 

Co-Director (UNIGE) 


Oris Michel, Prof. 

Phone: +41 (0)22 37 93786 

michel.oris@unige.ch 


Bernardi Laura, Prof. 

Phone: +41 (0)21 692 38 46 

laura.bernardi@unil.ch 

NCCR Scientific Officer 

Fasel Hunziker Rachel 

Phone: +41 (0)21 692 38 52 

rachel.faselhunziker@unil.ch 

Administrator 

Marcacci Tatiana 

Phone : +41 (0)21 692 38 38 

tatiana.marcacci@unil.ch 

Doctoral Program Officer 

Fagot Delphine, PhD 

Phone: +41 (0)22 379 92 26 

Delphine.Fagot@unige.ch 

Advancement of young 

researchers and women 

Demont Floriane, PhD 

Phone: +41 (0)22 379 89 24 

Floriane.Demont@unige.ch 

Le Feuvre Nicky, Prof. 

Phone: +41 (0)21 692 32 13 

nicky.lefeuvre@unil.ch 

Communication Officer & 


Transfer 

Marendaz Colle Emmanuelle 

Phone: +41 (0)21 692 38 83 

communication@lives-nccr.ch 

IT Officer 

Métral Grégoire 

Phone: +41 (0)22 37 93784 

gregoire.metral@unige.ch 

Address 



Bâtiment Géopolis 

1015 Lausanne 

Phone: +41(0) 21 692 38 38 

Fax: +41 (0) 21 692 32 35 

contact@lives-nccr.ch 

Research 

Vulnerability processes 

across the life course: 

Cumulative disadvantages, 

critical events, and sociopsychological 

resources 

H: Spini D. 

From youth to adulthood: 

Second generation 

immigrants’ insertion in 

the Swiss Society 

H: Bolzman C. 

Economic inequalities: 

Towards pathways out 

of vulnerability 

H: Lalive R. 

Overcoming vulnerability 

to unemployment: 

Possibilities and limits 

of the so-called “active” 

social policies 

H: Bonvin J.-M. 


Spini Dario, Prof. 

Bolzman Claudio, Prof. 

Bonvin Jean-Michel, Prof. 

Lalive Rafael, Prof. 

Le Feuvre Nicky, Prof. 

Rossier Jérôme, Prof. 

Widmer Eric, Prof. 

Staerklé Christian, Prof. 

Burton-Jeangros Claudine, Prof. 

Favez Nicolas, Prof. 

Perrig-Chiello Pasqualina, Prof. 

Oris Michel, Prof. 

Ritschard Gilbert, Prof. 

Joye Dominique, Prof. 

Vulnerability at the interface 

of professional and family life: 

Gender and occupational 

differentials 

H: Le Feuvre N. 

Professional trajectories: 

Impact of individual 

characteristics and resources 

and cultural background 

H: Rossier J. 

Critical events and 

family configurations 

H: Widmer E. 

Facing critical events in 

early adulthood: a normative 

approach to vulnerability 

and life course regulation 

H: Staerklé C. 

Health trajectories 

and life transitions: 

a life course approach to 

health vulnerability 

H: Burton-Jeangros C. 

Women facing cancer: 

Impact of the social support 

H: Favez N. 

Vulnerability and Growth: 

Development dynamics and 

differential effects of the 

loss of an intimate partner 

in the second half of life 

H: Perrig-Chiello P. 

Behind the democratization 

of old age: 

Inequalities within progress 

H: Oris M. 

Measuring life sequences 

and the disorder of lives 

H: Ritschard G. 

Life transitions in context: 

Toward an integrated 

methodological framework 

for studying the impact 

of critical events 

H: Joye D. 

Centre de recherche sur les parcours de vie et les inégalités, 


Haute école de travail social de Genève, HES-SO 

Haute école de travail social et de la santé-Lausanne, HES-SO 

Département d’économétrie et d’économie politique, 


Laboratoire de sociologie, Université de Lausanne 

Laboratoire de psychologie du développement, conseil et 

Intervention, Université de Lausanne 

Institut d‘études démographiques et du parcours de vie, 


Laboratoire de psychologie sociale,Université de Lausanne 



Section de psychologie, Université de Genève 

Institut für Psychologie, Universität Bern 

Centre interfacultaire de gérontologie et d’études des vulnérabilités 

(CIGEV), Université de Genève 



Centre de recherche sur les parcours de vie et les inégalités, 


Web Address 

http://www.lives-nccr.ch 


Topics 

The phenomenon of vulnerability 

in terms of social 

exclusion or precariousness 

threatens individual 

life trajectories. The monetary 

costs of stress among 

the Swiss population are 

estimated to amount 8 billion 

Swiss francs in the year 

2000. LIVES investigates 

life trajectories of about 

25000 people in Switzerland 

across domains, such as 

health, family, work, and institutions 

in a comparative 

and longitudinal perspective. 

The overall objective is 

to combine socio-economic, 

psycho-social and sociopolitical 

dimensions to capture 

the complexity of vulnerability 

dynamics in modern 

society. 


Its interdisciplinary teams 

are devoted to study individual 

lives from early to 

late adulthood and look at 

critical events and life sequences 

with respect to 

three main issues. First, 

the processes and states of 

vulnerability are studied by 

relating social structures, 

institutions, and individual 

life course, and policy interventions. 

Second, the 

debate on “new social risks” 

such as growing instability 

of personal relations, labour 

market uncertainty, 

and consequences of the 

economic crises is linked 

to the analysis of the life 

course within various welfare-state 

regimes. Third, 

diffusion and accumulation 

effects of critical events 

and the efficacy of individual 

resources to cope with 

stress are examined. 

The Universities of Lausanne 

and Geneva build on 

a ten-year collaboration 

and experience in empirical 

and methodological research 

within the PaVie 

Center. The NCCR LIVES 

collaborates also with the 

Swiss Centre of Expertise 

in the Social Sciences 

(FORS), the Swiss Federal 

Statistical Office (FSO) and 

with several renowned institutes 

and outstanding 

life course experts at international 

level. 

Prof. Billari Bocconi Francesco University, of Oxford, UK 

Prof. honorary Lalive d’Epinay Christian University of Geneva, CH 

Prof. de Ribaupierre Anik University of Geneva, CH 

Prof. Kohli Martin 

European University Institute, Florence, IT 

Prof. honorary Levy René University of Lausanne, CH 

Prof. Lindenberger Ulman MPI, Berlin, DE 

Prof. Marshall Victor 

University of North Carolina, US 

Prof. Mayer Karl-Ulrich 

Yale University, US 

Prof. McMullin Julie 

University of Western Ontario, CA 

Prof. Settersten Richard 

Oregon State University, US 

Prof. Thompson Elizabeth Stockholm University, SE and University of Wisconsin, US 


Programmes 

• Population Europe – Network of 

Europe’s leading demographic 

research centres 


• Birkbeck Institute for Social 

Research, Birkbeck College, 

University of London, GB 

• Population Change and Lifecourse: 

Strategic Knowledge Cluster, 

University of Western Ontario, 

London, CA 

• Center for Healthy Ageing 

Research, Oregon State University, 

Corvallis, US 

• Center for Research on Inequalities 

and the Life Course, Yale 

University, New Haven, US 

• Center on Ageing and the Life 

Course, Purdue University, West 

Lafayette, US 

• Centre de Recherche et d’Etudes 

en Gestion, Université de Pau 

et des Pays de l’Adour, FR 

• Centre d’étude de l’emploi, 

Ministère du travail, 

Noisy-le-Grand, FR 

• Centre for Analysis of Social 

Exclusion, London School of 

Economics and Political Science, GB 

• Centre of Gender Research, 

University of Oslo, NO 


Case Western Reserve University, 

Cleveland, US 


University of Western Ontario, 

London, CA 

• Dipartimento Sanita, Scuola 

Universitaria Professionale della 

Svizzera Italiana, Manno, CH 

• Etudes sur le Genre et la Diversité 

en Gestion, Université de Liège, BE 

• Hallie Ford Center for Healthy 

Children and Families, Oregon 

State University, Corvallis, US 

• Industrial Psychology & People 

Management, University of 

Johannesburg, ZA 

• Institute of Longitudinal Studies in 

Education, University of Bamberg, DE 

• Laboratoire d’Economie et de 

Sociologie du Travail, Centre 

national de la recherche 

scientifique, Aix-Marseille 

Université, FR 

• Mobilité, logement et entourage, 

Institut National Etude 

Démographiques, Paris, FR 

• Organizational Behaviour and 

Human Resources department, 

ESCP Europe, Paris, FR 

• Service Psychiatrie de Liaison, 

Hôpitaux Universitaires de 

Lausanne, CH 

• Social Policy Research Unit, 

University of York, GB 

• Forum suisse pour l’étude des 

migrations et de la population, 

Université de Neuchâtel, CH 


Overcoming vulnerability: 

life course perspectives 


• Swiss Household Panel, Swiss 

Foundation for Social Sciences, 

Lausanne, CH 

• Department of Epidemiology and 

Public Health, International Centre 

for Lifecourse Studies in Society 

and Health, University College 

London, GB 

• Leading House en économie de 

la formation professionnelle, 

Université de Genève, CH 

Others 

• Bureau de l’égalité de l’Université 

de Fribourg, CH 

• Bureau de l’égalité des chances de 

l’Université de Lausanne, CH 

• Bureau de l’égalité entre les 

femmes et les hommes du Canton 

de Vaud, Lausanne, CH 

• Bureau fédéral de l’égalité entre 

femmes et hommes, Berne, CH 

• Centre de Formation et 

d’Orientation Professionnelle, 

Lausanne, CH 

• Département de la santé et de 

l’action sociale du Canton de Vaud, 

Lausanne, CH 

• Département de la santé et des 

affaires sociales du Canton du 

Tessin, Bellinzona, CH 

• Département de la sécurité, des 

affaires sociales et de l’intégrité de 

l’Etat du Valais, Sion, CH 

• Département de la solidarité et de 

l’emploi du Canton de Genève, CH 

• Département des affaires 

régionales, de l’économie et de la 

santé du Canton de Genève, CH 

• Département des finances, des 

institutions et de la santé de l’Etat 

du Valais, Sion, CH 

• Dicastère Relève académique et 

diversité, Université de Lausanne, 

CH 

• Federation of Swiss Psychologists, 

Berne, CH 

• Office de statistique du canton du 

Tessin, Bellinzona, CH 

• Office fédéral de la statistique, 

Neuchâtel, CH 

• Bundesamt für 

Sozialversicherungen, Bern, CH 

• Pro Senectute Schweiz, Wallis und 

Basel, CH 

• Service de l›Emploi, Lausanne, CH 

• Staatssekretariat für Wirtschaft, 

Bern, CH 


• Brochure 

• Website 

• Electronic Newsletter 

• IP7 Newsletter 

• Exhibition 



SNSF funding 2 470 000 3 610 000 4 465 000 3 990 000 14 535 000 44 


institution 1 712 500 912 500 1 216 500 1 216 500 4 058 000 12 


University of Gneva 

451 000 458 000 569 000 669 000 2 147 000 7 


participants 

3 709 377 3 194 862 2 725 767 1 928 000 11 558 006 35 


Total 7 448 647 8 314 720 9 096 267 7 923 500 32 783 134 100 

Personnel 2 

1 


2 


3 


4 




Grob Alexander, Prof. (Chair) 

Bollen Kenneth A., Prof. 

Budowski Monica, Prof. 

Chenu Alain, Prof. 

Heckhausen Jutta, Prof. 

Héran François, Prof. 

Huinink Johannes, Prof. 


Willekens Frans, Prof. 



Total of 

Persons 


Nations 

FR DE IT AT PT 

Management 6.1 3 10 77 3 23 9 1 0 0 0 0 3 






Other staff 13 12 92 1 8 10 0 1 1 0 0 1 

Total 164.10 95 56 76 44 117 12 10 6 3 3 25 


Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, US 


Directeur de l’Observatoire sociologique du changement, Paris, FR 

Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, 


INED- Institut national d’études démographiques, Paris, FR 

EMPAS- Institut für angewandte und empirische Soziologie 

Universität, Bermen, DE 


Mol-Wezel (emeritus Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic 

Institute NIDI), BE 


phone: + 41 (0)31 308 23 51, fax: + 41 (0)31 305 29 71,

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